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...strong impact in the small towns of France, where apparently a Madame Bovary is still born every minute, and the heroine, who will seem to U.S. audiences no more than a roundheeled dunce, has become a national heroine of the French ''a sort of Joan of Arc of the boudoir...
...Joan of Arc. Early in their occupation, the Chinese Reds wiped out Sinkiang's original Moslem leaders. Looking for someone else to lead them, the restive Moslems turned to one Abraim Aysaev, an Uighur regional official who had been thinking dangerous thoughts since returning from a Communist-sponsored junket to the Middle East in 1958. Discovered by the secret police early this year, Aysaev was summoned to party headquarters. That night, according to the Communists, he returned to his hotel and killed himself. Fearing public outcry, the Reds buried him without a funeral...
Five miles above the quiet Riviera town of Fréjus (see map), French engineers five years ago built Malpasset Dam. A graceful, sweeping arc of concrete 738 ft. long and 197 ft. high, it backed the Reyran River into a lake six miles long and two miles wide. Only 22½ ft. thick at its base and 5 ft. at the top, the Malpasset was, French technicians boasted on its completion, the world's thinnest major dam. It was to prove an unhappy boast...
...four blue-jerseyed men facing him are mountains of muscle. Alert and agile as jungle cats, two linebackers crouch outside the ends. Ranged in an arc behind them are four lean, whippet-fast backs...
...present the group is expanding the length, or "arc" of the building which houses the apparatus. The increased dimensions will better accomodate the study of beams of particles coming from the atom smasher, commented Livingston...