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...fever's center wais Pierre Mendes-France. Working feverishly to patch together in four weeks the coalition he had hoped to have six months to build, Mendes announced the formation of a "Republican Front" comprising his sector of the Radical Socialists, some ex-Gaullists, and the small U.D.S.R. But without the Socialists it would be a front without depth. The Communists, who captured one vote out of every four cast in 1951, were also wooing the Socialists with talk of a new front that could sweep them back into a position of major power...
Student spectators were just leaving the Union fire at 1:30 p.m. as James A. Sanderson, driving his empty bus back to the Square to reload, his a patch of ice in front of Plympton St. Sanderson was only traveling at five miles per hour, but, he later recalled, "I just touched the brake...
...Philippines in 1944. For eleven years, Seaman Kinoshita lived on lizards, frogs, fruit and wild monkeys in the jungles of Luzon awaiting the day when a victorious Japanese navy would come to rescue him. That day never dawned, but last fortnight, as he raided a jungle-side sweet-potato patch, Kinoshita was picked up by Philippine police. "When," he asked, "will my head be cut off?" Told that he would not be killed at all, but sent home a free man, Kinoshita grew very sad. Last week, deprived of a hero's death by a too-forgiving enemy...
Your picture story [Sept. 5] on American horses was beautifully done. But shades of Hambletonian, Goldsmith Maid, Maud S., Dan Patch and Greyhound, how did you ever forget the most populous tribe of them all, the standardbred...
...tense men at a periscope window kept their eyes on Sonic Wind No. 2, a squat, steel sled with the menacing look of a robot spider. Beneath its red-and-white-striped cab, a string-straight rail track ran across the shimmering heat of Holloman Air Force Base. A patch of blue water dammed up between the rails stretched toward the end of the line, 3,500 ft. away...