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...have only to ask for independence," said Charles de Gaulle two years ago as he sought to abate the fever of African nationalism by organizing France's African empire into a Community of autonomous states. De Gaulle frankly hoped and expected that most of the colonies would prefer to settle for autonomy within the French Community. But twelve members have disconcertingly taken him at his word, and France has accepted the situation with grace. Last April, the Malagasy Republic on the island of Madagascar and the Mali Federation, a union of the former French West African colonies of Senegal...
...their own. "Blatant monstrosity," cried an M.P. Echoed London's Daily Telegraph: "An element of vulgarity." But by last week, when the fierce Yankee bird was hoisted into place, most of the locals allowed that they would probably learn to live with it, though they may still prefer pigeons. A few were even inclined to agree with the embassy's renowned Architect Eero Saarinen, who had tried to calm their earlier qualms with a somewhat technical reassurance: "The eagle will provide a vertical reference point in an otherwise horizontal facade...
...Radley son who has not shown his face outside the creaky old family house for 30 years and more, probably because he has "shy ways," but possibly -an explanation the children much prefer-because his relatives have chained him to his bed. Dill has the notion that Boo might be lured out if a trail of lemon drops were made to lead away from his doorstep. Scout and Jem try a midnight invasion instead, and this stirs up so much commotion that Jem loses his pants skittering back under the fence...
...convention, however, has staidly satisfied itself with the ponderous pronouncement that the party would approve of political unity in regional groupings, were it to be attained. By eschewing anything but this tepid conciliatory gesture, Nixon has proved that he would prefer to rest on Eisenhower's laurels (such as they are) rather than on Rockefeller's liberalism...
...onetime Top Pop Banana Frank Sinatra. Scarcely out of college, Kingston's Nick Reynolds, Dave Guard and Bob Shane are making some $10,000 a week, can pick up a six-day fee of $25,000 any time they can conquer their distaste for Las Vegas-"we prefer a less Sodom-and-Gomorrah-type scene...