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Watching its North African territories slip away. France at long last read its lesson. Demanding powers to establish local government and to give natives equal voting rights in its other colonies in "Black Africa," the Mollet government declared: "We must not permit ourselves to be outstripped and dominated by events, to yield subsequently to demands when they express themselves in violent terms." By an amazing 477 to 99, the Assembly gave the government the powers it had requested. For good measure, the government itself belatedly approved reforms for Algeria. Sample: 50-50 shares for Algerian sharecroppers (to whom heretofore landlords...
...many of them turned out by the old and not-so-very-old pros who stick close to Broadway-Cole Porter, Rodgers and Hammerstein, Harold Arlen, Frank Loesser, Irving Berlin, Johnny Mercer. But the million-dollar "pops" that feed the gluttony of the nation's 550,000 jukeboxes, slip through the hands of its several thousand disk jockeys, and shake the walls of dormitories and rumpus rooms are written for the most part by little-known men. They are more familiar to the Bureau of Internal Revenue, Income Tax Division, than to the public...
When Gruen finished, his audience of Fort Worth community leaders enthusiastically appointed study committees. They were so impressed by the Texas-like immensity of the project that none stopped to chide him for an undiplomatic slip: his report had said that "Fort Worth now finds itself not keeping pace with Dallas...
Thanks to such foresight, the delicate balance of William Leigh's life was maintained for 16 full years, and his cup of happiness overflowed. Then, recently, in a casual conversation with a neighbor, William committed that dreaded slip of the tongue: he referred to his Chorlton daughter as Lynn, instead of Margaret, when in fact Lynn was an Ancoats daughter-and the only child whose name was not duplicated in Chorlton. Word of the slip got to Emily, the Chorlton wife. Emily sent her eldest son to follow his father when he left home, and before William knew...
...fence of iron spikes from a standing position, and every once in a while, "just for the hell of it," he would walk along the outer rail of Pasadena's "suicide bridge" on his hands, apparently indifferent to the 190-ft. drop that awaited the least slip. He longed to be a member of Victor McLaglen's motorcycle corps of trick riders, and when he was 16 his father got him a secondhand cycle. For the next few years Bill rode blissfully about the streets of Pasadena, standing on the seat...