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Dirty Hands. Partly because of the army censorship in Algiers, partly out of a surfeit of crises, plain Frenchmen did not at first recognize the deadliness of the situation. Only gradually did it become clear that not just a few barricades had to be taken, but half of Algiers, half of Constantine. Not until the fourth day of the uprising did French newspaper readers learn that the insurgents had freed fellow insurgents from jail, permitted shops to be opened or ordered them to close, shut down Algiers municipal services and were in control of the city with the army...
Pierre Lagaillarde, 28. ex-paratrooper, who says: "I may be a fascist, but I'm not a reactionary. My great grandfather was on the barricades. I'm a plain revolutionary!" His egalitarian ancestor died in Paris in 1851 in a futile defense of the Second Republic against the incoming imperial regime of Louis Napoleon. Lagaillarde's principal resemblance to him is a common taste for barricades, but his great grandfather died trying to maintain the constituted authority of the state, not to overthrow...
...Members of the Front National Français poured in from the nearby slums to stand guard under their black Celtic crosses or to drill in the makeshift uniforms of the territorial army, a sort of Algerian home guard. Truckloads of armed peasants had rushed in from the rich plain of Mitidja. And there were the girls of all of them, serving as nurses or waitresses or human chains to pass stones to the barricades, but, nevertheless, wearing high heels, tight skirts and floppy sweaters...
...prove that Cleveland was a three-paper town. Always sickly, it survived against the other afternoon paper, Scripps-Howard sturdy Press (circ. 304,074), only through the pump priming of its owner since 1932, the Forest City Publishing Co., which also prints Cleveland's morning paper, the healthy Plain Dealer (circ. 305.291). But last week the News was dead: tired of pouring Plain Dealer profits into the News, Forest City's President Sterling E. Graham had announced the sale of the News to Scripps-Howard's Press for an estimated $1,250,000. The last surviving trace...
...half, Cleveland essentially is a noncommuter city, and therefore one with a home-delivery market. In such a market, a third paper is a luxury. As the News ran a bad last in the circulation race, advertisers passed it up to reach the wider audiences "of the Press and Plain Dealer, and frequently the 32-page News looked starved against its fat, 84-page afternoon opposition...