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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...these questions to Jacques Soustelle as he relaxed, from a killing schedule of speeches and political conferences, in the Villa des Oliviers. a spacious Moorish residence surrounded by palms, bougainvillaea and armed paratroopers. The number of Deputies Algeria will send to the National Assembly is a problem of secondary importance, declared Soustelle. "The real crux of the matter is that the Algerian Moslems want integration, not independence or any other formula. The events of the past two weeks have been a plebiscite...
...come to overpraise it. Among the dozens of American, British and German scientists who have visited Russia in recent years, a sounder assessment is now emerging. "The Western scientific picture," concludes West German Biologist Arnold Buchholz, "shows a much more finely woven net of research themes, with a great number of high points, and a higher level of quality. Soviet science is marked by massive points of heavy concentration and a great difference in the level of quality...
...says Rostand, "was constructed by and for a certain living species whose reproduction is sexual, whose two sexes are separate and about equal in number, whose fertilization is internal, whose period of gestation is about nine months. The sex of the infants of this species is recognizable at birth and, in general, does not change during life. It is evident that if man were hermaphroditic like the snail or could grow a new head like the earthworm, he would not have given himself the same laws...
...homes for a flat subscription rate of $9.50 a month. But last week Griffing announced that he was giving up; his brand of pay TV has not paid off. Despite a slash in price to $4.95, only 800 of Bartlesville's 28,700 citizens bought-only half the number needed to make cable ends meet. The two main factors that killed telemovies in Bartlesville were competing movies on free TV and the lack of a metering device that would permit set owners to pay only for movies they want to see. Subscribers complained that to get their money...
...Catholics in the U.S. (including Alaska and Hawaii) have increased by 38.1% in the last decade, the 1958 edition of The Official Catholic Directory reported last week. Current total: 36,023,997, an increase of 1,460,126 in 1957. Priests total 50,813, up 1,088 over the number reported last year, and the hierarchy numbers 225: four cardinals, 31 archbishops, 190 bishops. Converts to Catholicism topped the 100,000 mark for the twelfth year in succession, with 140,414 (the previous year's figure...