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Then he sped on to Mulhouse, near the German border, where his son-in-law, General Alain de Boissieu, commands the French army's 7th Division. During the meeting, at which twelve other generals were present-including Jacques Massu, the commander of French forces in Germany, who, ironically, led the army rebellion in Algeria that brought De Gaulle to power in 1958-De Gaulle asked how the army would react if there were a showdown with the French left. The generals first told him in no uncertain terms that the army would never fire on students or coerce striking...
...essence, the debates amounted to a bizarre bull session, frequently floundering in chaos. "The trouble with the world is that youth isn't being listened to and isn't being used," complained Student Alain Bedu. One recurrent and oddly revealing idea-that formal examinations ought to be abolished-met friendly rebuttal from many professors who joined in the dialogues. "Ending exams is not reasonable," said Professor Alfred Kastler, Nobel-prizewinnmg physicist. "You would be the victims. It would lead you and the university to feudal capitalism: selection by the fortune of parents." Students of every persuasion were heard...
...SUNDAY NIGHT MOVIE (ABC, 9 p.m.-12:15 a.m.). The Leopard (1963). Burt Lancaster, Alain Delon and Claudia Cardinale star in this motion-picture adaptation of Giuseppe di Lampedusa's novel about social turmoil in Italy at the time of Garibaldi...
...Alain Meilland, 27, a fifth-generation rose-grower who now heads the business, has a personal income of close to $200,000 a year. At least 10% of the millions of rose plants sold in the world every year, he says, are Meilland's. Since the success of Peace, professional rose-growers around the world buy his breeding stock, propagate it by grafting, and pay him royalties of 100 to 500 on each bush they sell. "We are a research laboratory whose sole purpose is to create beautiful roses," says Alain, as he points proudly to the family...
...climates. In the end, perhaps one plant out of the original 100,000 will make the grade. The new rose will be notable for its color, the firmness of its silken petals or its longevity. His Baccara was the first rose to last for a week after cutting, claims Alain Meilland, but in some recent tests his latest creation, Lovita, stayed in fresh bloom for three weeks...