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...hardly seemed possible, but Charles de Gaulle was gone. At one moment he had been there, seemingly as durable as the Arc de Triomphe, the most commanding figure ruling any nation, large or small, on the face of the earth. Now, abruptly, he was a retired country gentleman, a recluse in the tiny village of Colombey-les-Deux-Eglises sorting his memoirs, to be glimpsed only through a furtive telephoto lens and, most astonishing, to be heard not at all. Within twelve hours after his resignation in the wake of a referendum vote against his policies, workmen had moved...
...frequent irritation. It was impossible to discuss French politics for more than a few minutes without reducing the issue to De Gaulle personally. Even the countless jokes about him had grown somewhat tiresome because they always involved the same cast: De Gaulle with God, Jesus Christ, Joan of Arc or Napoleon. An industry grew up making De Gaulle souvenirs, from adulatory De Gaulle effigies and mildly satirical De Gaulle party masks to obscene artifacts. The monarch was not amused: there were hundreds of prosecutions for offenses against the President's dignity during De Gaulle's eleven years in office compared...
...days of the Fourth Republic, Pompidou took a six-month leave of absence from his job to serve as his official chef de cabinet. On inauguration day, De Gaulle ceremoniously offered a seat in the presidential limousine to Pompidou, and the two rode side by side away from the Arc de Triomphe, leaving ex-President René Coty to walk...
Jackie has traced an esthetic arc of grief, ending with a stylish whirl into another world. Ethel's special triumph has been to maintain normalcy. She has simply carried on, as best she could, the kind of existence that Bobby would have pursued had he lived. Countless other widows have had to do as much, most of them with less comfort from friends, family and position. Yet to acknowledge this takes nothing away from the energetic gallantry with which Ethel has managed...
...General Electric's Schenectady plant. As Mosher flexed his arms, the monster climbed a stack of heavy timbers to pose like a circus elephant with one foreleg held in the air. A flick of Mosher's wrist swung a 6½-ft. metal leg in an arc and sent the timbers flying. Another flick and the foreleg playfully kicked sand at watching newsmen...