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...about Algeria in search of rebels, had been a smashing success: from a high of 100,000 guerrillas when he took over, the rebels are now down to 15,000. In retirement for the past three months, Challe apparently plotted his coup with Salan, who is in exile in Madrid, and three field commanders in Algeria. A squat, soft-spoken man, Challe arrived in Algiers only last week, and nobody gave his presence a thought-except the clutch of officers in on the coup...
Actually, some 70% of the Foreign Service's "booze allowance" goes for food rather than drink. And ironically, many of the personal entertainment debts are rung up because of demands made by U.S. visitors-particularly Congressmen. In 1959, some 200 Congressmen stopped by in Madrid, all deserving of hospitality from Ambassador John Lodge. Ambassador to Brazil John Moors Cabot, who usually spends $5,000 from his own pocket on entertainment, has had to wine and dine 28 U.S. Governors and their wives and half a dozen congressional groups in the last six months. Says he: "You've just...
...suspects, emerged as the top man among the European activists. He personally led the January 1960 uprising in Algiers, fought a pitched battle with the police and raised the barricades against De Gaulle. Arrested and brought to trial in Paris, Lagaillarde fled to Spain, where, from the safety of Madrid, he now loudly urges the European activists in Algeria to fight to the last...
...padded into Oxford's Sheldonian Theatre and presented ballots in Latin for the now hotly desired chair of professor artis poeticae. The winner: Robertum R. Graves, with 329 votes. Enid Starkie finished last with 96 votes, a bitter reminder that kingmakers never become kings. Hearing the news in Madrid, Winner Graves composed a victory communique in three minutes flat...
Dwarfs & Princelings. In Madrid his colors gradually brightened, but the lyric realism remained. While Rubens, who spent nine months at the Spanish court, tried to puff up his noble and royal subjects by surrounding them with allegorical figures, Velásquez painted them exactly as they were. His figures stand out against subdued or neutral backgrounds, but whether dwarf or princeling or court jester, they are full-fledged individuals, painted without adornment and without malice...