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...Lone Critic. Only one influential voice, the newspaper L'Action, patterned after Paris' outspoken L'Express, dared speak up against this autocratic trend. Last week Bourguiba abruptly silenced that voice...
...small sense, that solitary house vote reflected the only remaining fear of a few Arkansas lawmakers, not necessarily integrationists, that the Governor was simply getting too much power. Explained the lone dissident, Lawyer Ray Smith Jr., representative from Hot Springs: "I just don't want to give that power to any Governor-even though I believe in his integrity." Smith added that he chose not to disclose his views on integration...
India's Nehru, initially pleased by Russia's invitation, was now less keen to participate at the risk of promoting Nasserism and looking like a Soviet stooge. France's Charles de Gaulle continued to play his lone hand in the grand manner. Unmoved by Anglo-American disapproval, unshaken by the fact that every other NATO nation opposed his position in an impassioned 5½-hour session of the NATO Council, De Gaulle continued to call for private five-power chats, somewhere in Europe in the "necessary conditions of objectivity and serenity," and never mind about gathering...
...benign feudal baron, keeps on the good side of his workers. He provides them with houses, schools and churches, goes into the fields to talk with them, personally accepts petitions and complaints on the porches of his many homes, which adjoin his mills. He can also get tough. Lone Wolf Lobo has long conducted a single-handed battle against government controls and quotas. With the backing of most rival sugarmen, the Cuban government keeps tight control on the industry to curb overproduction and bolster prices. It also cooperates with the sugar workers' unions in crippling growers with restrictions that...
...Army helicopter crewmen, kidnaped by the Russians and the East German satellite state when their helicopter came down in East Germany June 7, were produced by the Communists for a surprise press conference in Dresden. On hand at the conference: a crowd of Communist newsmen and one lone Westerner, Associated Press Reporter Seymour Topping (see PRESS). Presumably the Communists hoped that by showing off U.S. servicemen in captivity they could prod the U.S. public into prodding the U.S. Government to pay a high soldiers' ransom. The ransom, openly demanded through spokesmen for the Russians: U.S. recognition-actual or implied...