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Both fledgling nations want to remain in the French Community, but the French Constitution at present provides that any member desiring independence must leave the Community. De Gaulle is expected to ask for an amendment that will transform the Community into the shape of a loose alliance of free countries along the lines of the British Commonwealth. Likely target date for completion of the constitutional rejiggering and the formal proclamations of independence: next June...
...masterpieces. They can take a brown, wrinkled, flaking canvas and turn it into a picture that looks like new. They can also turn Rembrandt's Night Watch into a Day Watch, expose an extra pair of ears on the Van Eyck brothers' Adoration of the Lamb, or transform Brueghel's Hunters in the Snow from a haunting evocation of winter dusk into a Grandma Moses-type picture of sparkling noontime cheer. The restorer's results are unquestionably dramatic, but is the drama comedy or tragedy...
Mask & Fin. Since the naked eye is all but blind under water, the basic equipment is a good face mask that will transform the murk into a wonderland. With the addition of a simple snorkel tube poking above the surface, the swimmer can cruise indefinitely on the surface with his face buried under water. So equipped, swimmers can peer for happy hours into the depths of the Gulf of Mexico or forest-bound lakes in Wisconsin, study the toadfish that fusses like an old lady off Long Island. Ducking beneath the surface, the strong-lunged pry abalone from the California...
...followed last summer's invasion of Laos by Red guerrillas from Communist North Viet Nam, Phoui Sananikone, 56, the Prime Minister, became painfully aware that the non-Lao tribesmen who make up nearly half of Laos' population had no loyalty to their six-year-old nation. To transform Laos into a reasonable facsimile of a functioning nation would take years of rural economic reform - and peace. Pro-Western as he was, Phoui concluded that Laos would not have such peace if it provoked trouble with its omnivorous neighbors, Communist North Viet Nam and Red China...
...whose occasional eloquence and melodic beauty is drowned in the wearisome repetition of meaningless climaxes. The orchestra brightened things again with a fine, majestic performance of Schubert's Symphony No. 8 (The Unfinished) and a round of selections from various Strausses, including a Fledermaus overture that seemed to transform Carnegie Hall into a crystal-hung ballroom...