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...Vigor." Next morning, after spending the night at his hilltop estate in Colombey, De Gaulle returned to Paris in a fighting mood. Emerging from a quickly convened Cabinet meeting at the palace, his Ministers wore the grim visages of men preparing to enter combat. What had been De Gaulle's message? asked newsmen. "Vigor," replied a Minister. "Vigor." Inside, in clipped, angry phrases, De Gaulle was shouting into a tape recorder his speech to the nalion. Within a quarter-hour, his words were relayed throughout France...
...Toward a Democratic Left, Author Harrington, 40, is recapitulating in dialectical terms his own crablike glide to the right in search of greater political influence. The goal, he said recently, "is to maintain your ideals without becoming irrelevant, without just sitting up on a hilltop spinning theories." To that end, he has joined the Independent Democrats on his home turf in Greenwich Village, thinks now that he made a mistake in not voting for John Kennedy in 1960. "I came to the conclusion," he admitted, "that to call upon the liberals and radicals to leave the Democrats and join...
...week's only successful Communist stab was made at Lang Vei, a hilltop U.S. Special Forces camp four miles southwest of Khe Sanh on Route 9. Basically a post for interdicting Communist movement into the South and for overseeing allied patrols into nearby Laos, Lang Vei was defended by some 400 South Vietnamese and Montagnard irregulars and 24 Green Berets, operating out of a deeply dug bunker made of three feet of rein forced concrete and two-inch steel plate, complete with its own ventilation system. As much as any place can be in Viet Nam, it seemed...
...Francisco studio. Walls? The trend is away from stark, white-painted plaster and toward colors and textures. Decorator Frank Austin used burlap in Actress Polly Bergen's Beverly Hills living room; Decorator Arthur Elrod specified walnut wood and marble for Film Financier Eugene Klein's hilltop home near...
When the first tremors began in the parched, rock-ribbed mountains of western Sicily last week, most of the 3,000 people of Salaparuta took refuge on the slopes just below their hilltop town. There, among their goats and grapevines, they waited in the chilly night for the danger to pass. At 3 a.m. the earth rolled again, at first gently, then with a sickening sway. Before their eyes, Salaparuta crumbled apart like a child's sand castle. Within 30 seconds, the nine-century-old vineyard town was little more than dust. Left standing over the moonlit rubble...