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...cronies and family began cashing in on that weakness. Son Khalil's law practice and business deals began showing enormous profits. So did Brother Fuad's cement plant. Brother Caesar's wife became a busy influence peddler. El Khoury's friend, Henri Pharon, a banker, boss of the taxi drivers' union and owner of a racing stable, was known as the man who could put the fix on any kind of problem...
...have become an internationalized zone as headquarters for the Schuman Plan. But the Germans want the Saar for their own; the French won't hear of it. ¶ In the Assembly last week, the Germans and Italians wanted to elect a German president. The French backed Paul-Henri Spaak. After a sharp skirmish, the job went to Belgium's Spaak, who last December quit in disgust as president of the Council of Europe's Assembly because, he said, it could only agree on "what could not be done...
...Matisse, 2) a tubular package which arrived last week. Caditz, knowing from the letter that something good was on the way, called in his friends and opened the package with ceremony and champagne. Inside was a delicate pen & ink sketch of a girl's head. Generous but cautious Henri Matisse had written: "I am sending you . . . the object you desire, with the hope that it will please you. But I pray you not to encourage any of your friends to make a similar request of me." His mail-order job for Clem Caditz. said Painter Matisse, was "completely exceptional...
...since that nightmarish day in 1926, when Bill Tilden, Bill Johnston and Richard Norris Williams were rudely ousted from the national quarter finals by France's Henri Cochet, Jean Borotra and Rene Lacoste*,had the U.S. suffered such a tennis setback...
...German rearmament, 4) haul the U.S. before the NATO Council for welshing on its obligations. Premier Antoine Pinay fumed Gallicly because his budget, which he had promised to balance without increasing taxes, had been worked out on the assumption that the U.S. would fork over. Pinay sent French Ambassador Henri Bonnet to the State Department with an indignant protest. Said Bonnet afterwards: "The two governments did not see the question with the same...