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...under cover of Egyptian Royal Air Force planes. Farouk had made and unmade Premiers and generals, manipulated the Arab League, and lost $140,000 in a single night of gambling. But last week, at the payoff, he couldn't command a battalion. His order to the bodyguards to resist never reached them because the messenger was intercepted. A few loyal bodyguards shot up three soldiers, and with that the last remnant of Farouk's power evaporated...
...National Assembly. Reduced from 115 seats to 85, the Gaullists now rank as No. 3 after Socialists (104 seats) and Communists (96). For Premier Pinay, the splintering was one more lucky break. Barrachin's group noisily insists that they are still Gaullists at heart, and that they would resist the Schuman Plan and the European Army as bitterly as De Gaulle himself. But on economic issues, about which Pinay cares most, the Barrachinistes would do their best to save the franc. They proved it last week by standing by Pinay in a confidence vote on the échelle mobile...
Curtain Call. Neurologist Brain refused to try to adjudicate between physical and psychological explanations of mental states. But he could not resist a dig at the extreme Freudians: "You will recall the moving end of Peer Gynt, where Peer finds Solveig . . . and realizes that she is both wife and mother . . . If, as the curtain falls, a psychoanalyst in the seat behind you whispers: 'Oedipus complex!', do you understand the play better or enjoy it more...
...plane to a special Missouri Pacific Lines train at Little Rock. When it pulled into the station at Newport (pop. 6,262), 84 miles up the line, patient knots of people were waiting in the heat under the platform lights. It was a sight the President could not resist...
...Communist control, so that, at the time of any exchange, all remaining prisoners would be available for repatriation. The Communists were interested in this; but it still stuck in their craw that three out of four of the U.N.'s Chinese prisoners had indicated that they would forcibly resist any attempt to send them home. The Reds continued to demand the unconditional exchange of all "foreign" (non-Korean) prisoners. Nevertheless, they asked for a one-day recess to study the U.N. proposal, then for executive sessions to shield "realistic discussions." The U.N. agreed. A U.N. briefing officer told newsmen...