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Next day he was off for home. Acting Premier Edgar Faure, meeting him at Orly Airport, started right off, "The atmosphere in Parliament is bad," and began enumerating. Listening, Mendes looked out over the crowd of gathered well-wishers and snapped: "Eh bien, I seem to have plenty of friends but few supporters...
...voyage to the bottom of the Atlantic was uneventful enough to satisfy the most apprehensive bystander. Every 30 minutes, Lieut. Commander Georges Houot and Engineer Pierre-Henri Willm reported by an ultrasonic signaling device: "Tout va bien" (all is well). At 3:23 p.m. a patrolling airplane saw the yellow steel hull break above the surface...
...Communist General Giap was not wasting time licking his Nasan wounds. Part of his forces had pulled out for a three-week rest north of the Hanoi delta, while others 1) captured Dien Bien airport and garrison, 65 miles west of Nasan; 2) ambushed a detachment of Moroccans retreating from Laichau and then encircled the old Thai capital; 3) forced the French to abandon Phong Tho, 35 miles north of Laichau; 4) moved south to the borders of Laos. Giap's most serious effort was a two-division attack (20,000 men) on the flooded area around Phat Diem...
...some sleeping pills, turned on the gas jets in the kitchen, aimed the pistol at his own head and pulled the trigger. Superficially wounded, he woke up in the hospital soon afterward to find himself charged with attempted murder. "But," he stammered, "she tried to murder me too!" "Eh, bien," the gendarmes sighed and went out after Madeleine...
...rotifera and tardigrada regained life, Voltaire could see no reason why they should not acquire new souls. "The only thing I am really curious about," said he, "is, why does the Great Being grant the faculty of resurrection only to these little beasts? Les baleines doivent être bien jalouses [Whales must be very jealous...