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...hilarious New Year's Eve party in an exclusive Cannes nightclub gave birth to a new form of fun: pelting the aging Ago Khan with green cotton balls soaked in champagne. Said the indignant target: "This is terrible. I do not like this." Among the pelters: son Aly Khan and Cinemactress Gene Tierney, his latest Côte d'Azur romance...
...close air support and air observation function best by day. At night it takes about 20 minutes for star shells or a flare plane to illuminate a combat area, and this time is valuable to the furtive Reds. Their own artillery, though abundant, is sluggish in following a moving target...
...graduates are often poorly trained in the three Rs, and many are woefully ignorant of history, geography and science. Is inefficient teaching to blame? Probably not, University of Illinois History Professor Arthur E. Bestor Jr. told the American Historical Association in Washington this week. If educators have missed the target, it is because they have set their sights so low that no possible increase of efficiency can enable them to hit it. They are teaching the wrong courses; they are firing wild...
FLORIDA First Fruits In late 1951, Florida was swept by a storm of racial violence. Miami's Carver Village, a housing development newly opened to Negroes, was three times the target of dynamite bombings; similar attacks were made on synagogues and a Catholic church. The climactic outrage came last Christmas when Harry Moore, state coordinator for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, and his wife were killed in the bombing of their home at Mims...
...Stuttgart's smoky beer hall, Panzerknacker Rudel seemed to feel that he was back in the Stuka dive bomber with the European Army (EDC) as his target for the night. "We cannot join these Western schemes," he shouted. "[They would mean] the immolation of the German people . . ." Added General Adolf Wolf: "America wants to use us as additional horses . . ." Anyone who cooperates with such designs, said Wolf, "will expose himself . . . as a man without honor or comradeship...