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...them is the heart-stopping way she runs a race, loafing along until the head of the stretch, then roaring past the field in a powerful thrust. Last week American-bred Allez France beat the best thoroughbreds Europe had to offer in the 1%-mile Prix de 1'Arc de Triomphe, winning $296,500 and becoming the only other filly besides Dahlia ever to earn $1 million. Back at the stable, keeping the champ happy takes considerably more than oats. Allez France demands the camaraderie of Merry Lord, a horse who leads the morning workouts, dotes on the champion...
...Like a shopping center, there are a number of parts to it. The library and the museum are in separate buildings. Eisenhower's boyhood home has been restored. The former president and his infant first born son are buried in the chapel-like Place of Meditation. In a focal arc, five large Memorial Pylons are dedicated to Eisenhower's parents, the six Eisenhower brothers, members of the armed services, democracy, and the home where the president spent his childhood. And still the Center grows; a large new visitors' reception facility is under construction...
LANCELOT OF THE LAKE is the work of Robert Bresson, a great and trying film maker. Just as one would expect from the creator of Pickpocket and The Trial of Joan of Arc, there are scenes and images here of a terrible, severe beauty: knights dying in battle or competing in joust, a mailed hand clutching the handle of a weapon, a horse's eye going wide in terror. These visions occur, however, not in an epic adventure, but as part of a moral speculation in miniature. Bresson's ascetic attentions converge on the fateful romance of Lancelot...
Americans have followed Alexander Solzhenitsyn's distant struggle with the Soviet government and his final, forced hegira into exile with the kind of awe that might attend the trial and burning of Joan of Arc. He is the world's most celebrated writer. The Gulag Archipelago, with massive printings now pouring its cornucopia of Communist cruelties into book clubs and bookstores all over the U.S., seems about to become his most popular work...
...review not the silver-helmeted Garde Républicaine but a unit of the First Army's Second Dragoon Regiment, in which he served as a tank gunner during World War II. When he later makes the ceremonial visit to the tomb of the unknown soldier at the Arc de Triomphe, the new President will walk up the Champs-Elysées instead of being driven there by limousine...