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Modifications in policy are as subtle for France's President Charles de Gaulle as the erosion of an Alp. Thus grandeur watchers saw a significance of sorts in his presence as host at an official farewell luncheon for U.S. Ambassador Charles E. Bohlen, 63. While "France does not constantly approve" of American actions, De Gaulle said, getting in a few pro forma licks, the two nations could nevertheless still rely on their "capital of reciprocal interest, attraction and admiration." De Gaulle then intoned a toast to Bohlen, who is returning to Washington as Deputy Under Secretary of State...
Three weeks ago, a pretty German became the first known hit-and-run skier to be arrested. Skiing down an Austrian Alp, she had crashed into another girl, jabbing a ski pole through her cheek, and then disentangled herself to schuss merrily on down without so much as a word. But because no law covers the situation precisely, it is uncertain just what will happen to the offender...
...this does not prove to be true: Mau-riac's quivering admiration simply is too great to be contained. The reader never really grasps what lies behind the De Gaulle mystique; he is merely reassured in passage after adulatory passage that it is there like a towering, providential Alp, and that De Gaulle is correct when he states with "calm certainty that he is the State and, it may not be too much to say, France herself...
...legend is durable enough to warrant it. One Air Force model, having crash-landed on an ice island off Alaska five years ago, still stands there, a monument on a 30-foot pedestal of ice (see cut). In 1946, a DC-3 flew into a Swiss Alp, inflicting minor injury on itself and passengers, who disembarked. Thereupon, the plane sank out of sight into a glacier's soft snow. The thrifty Swiss calculate that the glacier, moving ponderously down the mountain, will discharge its cold-frozen possession six centuries hence-presumably in flyable condition...
...Marseille, Conrad met and fell madly in love with the Pretender's beautiful young mistress, a luscious Hungarian named Paula de Somogyi. They ran off together and spent several idyllic weeks in a rose-covered cottage on an Alp. The idyl ended when a jealous admirer provoked a quarrel. Conrad challenged him to a duel, but then chivalrously fired at the fellow's pistol hand. His opponent, who was Francis Scott Key's grandson but obviously no gentleman, calmly transferred the pistol to his other hand and shot Conrad through the chest. For days Conrad lay near...