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...privacy of their leaders than Americans do. In the case of the French press, that delicacy has material aspects. The government controls the supply of paper and since World War II has granted the press important tax concessions. Whatever the motive, most French newsmen managed to ignore the ail too visible symptoms of Pompidou's ill health until the President's meeting with Richard Nixon in Iceland last May. When American journalists reported on Pompidou's sickly appearance and speculated on the cause, French publications began to take note of it. Revealing photos were widely published...
...flights, delays, hotel rooms, limousines, taxicabs, interviews, speeches, baby kissing, crowds big and small, jostling, jeers, small-time pols who have to be humored, contributors who think they own you because they gave to your last campaign. But you know, and others know, that you will go through it ail again...
Henrik Ibsen kept a live scorpion in an empty beer glass on his writing table. "From time to time the brute would ail; then I would throw in a piece of ripe fruit, on which it would cast itself in a rage and eject its poison; then it was well again." As usual in an Ibsen scene, opera glasses are not needed to recognize the symbolism. Tiny, armored, venomous, Ibsen was an ailing spirit whose dramas stung the 19th century's conscience and gave European theater a new seriousness. After launching into poetic tragedy (Brand, Peer Gynt), Ibsen imported...
Married. Hayley Mills, 25, dimpled Disney child star who won a special Oscar for her 1960 performance in Pollyanna; and Roy Boulting, 57, British producer-director and Hayley's longtime chum; she for the first time, he for the fourth; in Cap-d'Ail, France...
...during that week, we struck back in the feeble ways we could. High schools, colleges, and universities ail over the country shut down as their students left class to try to stop the millions of murders in Indochina and to prevent any more such murders at home...