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...Government is neither to the left nor the right, but straight through the middle!" So roared Premier Gueorguieff three weeks ago after he had set up a Fascist Dictatorship following a sudden bloodless coup d'etat (TIME, May 21; June 4). Last week Through-the-Middle Gueorguieff struck straight at Bulgaria's most ancient ache, her bloodthirsty Macedonian minority, by issuing an order prohibiting private ownership of arms and munitions, and announcing that a house-to-house search would follow. Hundreds of Bulgarians did not wait; the weapons dropped mysteriously into the gutters...
...socialite. Eventually he managed to divorce them both and enjoy a quiet interlude with a sensible mistress. Since he was not judged fit for public office, he studied history and planned to write the true story of his family. His father Drusus. his brother Germanicus both came to suspiciously sudden ends. When the good Augustus died (by his wife's poison) and was succeeded by the vicious Tiberius, Claudius lived in observant retirement. Under the rule of the madman Caligula he found himself in the unenviable position of middle-aged court butt...
Death, as it must to all men, came last week to Cass Gilbert, 74, architect, in Brockenhurst, England. Had not a sudden heart attack laid him low in a bedroom of pleasant, rambling Balmer Lawn Hotel, he, his wife and daughter would have left in two days for Southampton and the U. S. Behind him Cass Gilbert left many a great building to keep his memory alive through many a long year...
...Tokyo, Medium Kii Tsuchiya wrote: ''When I looked at my face in the mirror this morning, I read my destiny. I found it was my lot to die a sudden and unexpected death. I am old and do not wish to die in an automobile accident or be killed under falling debris. I want to die peacefully, at home.'' She did. She stepped into the family well...
...long as it remains a comedy of manners, Glamour is a workmanlike production. But its sudden change of pace to a tragedy of morals proved too much for Director William Wyler. Typical shot: Linda and Victor assuring each other that they "don't want to be melodramatic" as they say goodby...