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...seeds of a new French revolution were being sown last week in a small shop near the Arc de Triomphe. There, crowds of customers were enthusiastically shopping in France's first discount house, with prices of refrigerators, toasters and all other goods cut a flat 20% under prices fixed by manufacturers and retailers. In two or three days, the yellow-fronted shop did as much business as others in the neighborhood handled in a year...
Next day more than 25,000 Parisians-including 300 Deputies and Senators, five Cabinet members and five former Premiers -marched up the Champs-Elysees to lay a wreath under the Arc de Triomphe for the Hungarians. After the ceremony, thousands in the crowd, many so young that they carried schoolbooks, made off through the streets singing La Marseillaise and shouting "Thorez to the gallows...
...been producing phenomenal results all over Europe (TIME, Oct. 29), by adding a sentence to the javelin-throwing rules: "At no time after preparing to throw, until the javelin has been discharged into the air, may the competitor turn completely around so that his back is toward the throwing arc...
...obvious effort to team up with his stablemate, Career Boy, and steal France's famous Prix de 1'Arc de Tromphe horse race at Longchamps, C. V. Whitney's gallant little Fisherman sprinted away from the starting wire. Far back Career Boy, Eddie Arcaro aboard, waited for the front-runners to tire in Fisherman's wake...
...arguer there has ever been . . . marvelous over a short distance; but he could not sustain an argument for more than a paragraph ... On all serious questions Shaw came down firmly on the side of the stronger . . . Even when he glorified a heretic he took care to choose Joan of Arc-someone safely canonized and not associated with any really dangerous idea . . . Shaw was never unhappy; and therefore he was never happy either. He knew only pleasure, a very different thing. At the end of his life Shaw confessed that he stood for Nothing...