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...France have little to do with transportation or exercise. For priests, market-bound peasants, bankers who would sooner pedal than be chauffeured, bicycling is a way to dream and drift in dignity, to twirl life like a long-stemmed glass of Alsace wine. "Vive le vélo, un ami de l'homme" proclaims an affectionate Norman toast: "Long live the bike, a friend...
Social Niceties. That night De Gaulle was the host at a brilliant formal dinner at the Elysee Palace. By this time, the crusty old soldier had obviously warmed to his young guests. Referring to Kennedy as "mon ami," the French President in his toast paid tribute to Kennedy's "intelligence and courage," noted "the philosophy of the true statesman who selects his course and holds to it without letting himself be stopped, not deviating because of incidents, and without waiting for any formula or combination to alleviate the responsibility that is his duty and his honor." Looking much like...
...looked at Gene Kelly. The two are in Paris trying to film a movie called Gigot, about a lovable deaf-mute bum whose best friend is an alley cat. In the first scene, the cat is supposed to hear an alarm clock, wake up, and then rouse his deaf ami by licking his face. But the first dozen Parisian alley cats had flunked their screen tests. Gleason, who plays Gigot, swabbed off the sardine oil and discussed things with Actor-Director Kelly. Importing trained cats from Hollywood would cost almost $10,000, it developed. It was decided...
...COMPACT CAR, described as a "spacious small car," will be marketed next year by France's Citroen in competition with Volkswagen and U.S. compacts. Called the AMI 6, the four-door sedan has a front-mounted, air-cooled engine, front-wheel drive, 62-m.p.h. top speed. U.S. price: under...
Teaching & Thinking. Unlike all-out progressive educators, Hansen refuses to "leave learning to chance." Though Ami-don's youngsters will get plenty of "experience-centered activities," they will not be "lost in a hodgepodge of unit teaching." Reading begins with phonics in first grade and formal grammar starts in fourth grade (two years earlier than in most U.S. schools). Writing is heavily emphasized because it "improves and refines thinking"-and the same goes for math and science. More outrageous yet by progressive standards, geography focuses on specific places, and U.S. history is taught in chronological order "to develop...