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...expected, especially since the Europeans will probably abstain. The French government will then formally hand over sovereignty to the F.L.N. The first of the F.L.N. exiles-including the 35,000-man F.L.N. army based in Tunisia and Morocco-will return home. The referendum is to be followed by a three-year transitional period during which the French army will carry out a phased withdrawal, though still retaining the Mers-el-Kebir naval base and the Reggane atomic testing grounds in the Sahara. At the end of that period, general elections will be held, and the Europeans still remaining...
...shortage of physicians is so acute (one for every 7,000 people) that East Germany is importing 55 doctors from other satellite countries to serve three-year terms in the most critical areas...
...anything by it," said Weatherly. "I just got in his way." An easy winner in the G.T. division, Moss picked up $7,500, and Ferrari picked up nine points toward the 1962 manufacturers' world championship. Driving in the faster sports-car class, California's Dan Gurney, a three-year Grand Prix veteran, wound up the overall winner. He averaged 104 m.p.h. in a low-slung Lotus, managed to limp over the line on his starter motor when his engine quit 200 yds. from the finish...
...stockpile is something to worry about. For years the government has been accumulating (under no less than four different sets of contracts) some 76 items, many of which were once considered invaluable in case of war but which now seem absurdly gratuitous. Assuming that preparing to fight a three-year war is now rather less realistic than preparing to recover from a three-week one, the government has on its hands an immense surplus of no longer "critical" material...
...Amid mutual professions of sweetness and statesmanship, both labor and management last week spread word that they expect no repetition of 1959's disastrous, 116-day strike, have decided to start their talks earlier than before so that they can iron out their differences well before the current three-year contract expires on June 30. Bluff David J. McDonald. 59, president of the United Steelworkers, was jocularly casual about how he expected to start bargaining with his laconic adversary, U.S. Steel Corp. Executive Vice President R. (for Richard) Conrad Cooper. Said McDonald: "I'll call Coop...