Reported TIME Correspondent Stanley Karnow from Paris:
AMERICA'S youngsters, born rich or poor, have opportunity, and can take it to guide their own destinies.
Their fathers may be pants cutters, college professors or margarine magnates, but they can run for Vice President, discover vaccines, smash the atom, teach Latin, or, in the Mitty manner, dream violently of heroic adventure.
French youth dares not dream. It must face a reality partly restricted by tradition, partly by history, partly by the failure of its nation's leaders to govern wisely and fairly.
France is a land...
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