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...Gaulle's administration is Banker-Professor Georges Jean Raymond Pompidou, 51, a bushy-browed bear of a man who grows roses and has written books on French writers from Racine to Cabinet Colleague André Malraux. Premier in the Cabinet that was overthrown in October, and now Premier-designate, Pompidou is probably closer to the President than any other minister. He was a schoolteacher and Resistance fighter before joining De Gaulle as a consultant on education in 1944, later became director of the Rothschild bank. De Gaulle, who does not relax easily, is soothed by Pompidou's roguish...
...challenged the masters was short-legged, plump and swarthy, with violently staring eyes. He wore his hair in bangs to conceal two hornlike protuberances that jutted from his forehead. Contemporaries noted that there was something catlike in his manners, his wit and his sulks. Wrote Poet André Suares: "Just as the cat rubs itself against the hand, Debussy caresses his soul with the pleasure which he invokes." A natural bohemian, the composer spent nights roaming Montmartre with celebrities of the period ranging from Mata Hari to Marcel Proust...
Last week 500 spectators in the Liėge courtroom cheered and applauded as Dr. André Herpin, who signed the death certificate, testified: "If I had been the only one to know about the killing, I would have written 'Death from natural causes.''' The court asked whether Herpin had examined the baby's body. "No," he replied hoarsely. "I did not have the courage to undress...
Such reasoning is not likely to bring victory to the Gaullists in the elections for the new National Assembly scheduled in two stages for Nov. 18 and 25. Hoping to provide more telling arguments, Culture Minister André Malraux last week invited 25,000 prominent Gaullists to a rally at the Palais de Chaillot for his newly formed Association for the Fifth Republic. In a brilliant and scathing attack on the old party system, Malraux charged that opposition leaders had not been able to unite to bring peace in Algeria, to confront the revolt of French generals, or to further...
...best education, the choicest jobs, the most money. Today, though Westerners still run the country, they are deeply worried that they will soon be displaced as Israel's ruling class by an unschooled, unskilled mass of settlers of Afro-Asian descent, who already outnumber them. Moroccan-born Dr. André Shuraky, Premier David Ben-Gurion's chief adviser on immigration problems, warned last week that in 15 years three out of every four Israeli Jews will be of Afro-Asian origin...