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...some risks. French officials had decided that the chances of trouble during Charles de Gaulle's trip to Latin America were minimal. If his health could take the strain (a question to everyone except the astonishing old man himself), the trip should provide a string of modest but unbroken successes. After two weeks and six countries, the educated guess was more or less on target. In the third week, trouble materialized. De Gaulle's visit to Argentina was a bomb...
Denmark, Norway and Finland have prospered similarly, and in decades of unbroken Socialist rule they have also developed egalitarian, secure societies, virtually unscarred by slums, unemployment, curable disease and illiteracy. To Danes, their aim is to ensure "the greatest possible happiness for the greatest number of people"; to Norwegians, to guarantee "security regardless of personal success...
...claims to the Saar; Germany paid only one-third of the cost, though nine-tenths of the canal flows through its territory. When the project is linked up with the Sâone and Rhône rivers through a complex system of canals, it will provide an unbroken waterway from Marseille to Rotterdam, a route first visualized by the Roman generals Nero Claudius Drusus and Gaius Antistius Vetus some 2,000 years...
...University of Texas Law School and told the University of Oklahoma to stop isolating Negro Graduate Student George McLaurin. Sweatt and McLaurin opened the way for 1954's Brown v. Board of Education, the landmark Supreme Court decision against school segregation. After that came a virtually unbroken string of Inc. Fund triumphs against segregated buses, beaches, golf courses, hospitals and courtrooms-the major victories of the U.S. civil rights revolution...
...auditorium is ringed with five shallow balconies that stand out like golden horseshoes against the garnet walls; the orchestra seats stand in an island unbroken by aisles, European-style. Although the theater is as big as the acrophobia-inducing Metropolitan Opera House, it has a feeling of closeness and intimacy that makes it seem far smaller. Only 550 of the 2,729 seats are farther than 100 feet from the stage, and all but a few of the $1.05 seats at the top have a perfect sight line. Single seats are placed Indian-file along the balconies at an angle...