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Mayor Camille Blanc of Evian-les-Bains, a quiet resort town on the French side of Lake Geneva, set out thousands of tulips in the town square and issued a message of assurance. The peace talks scheduled to begin there this week between France and the Algerian rebels would not turn the place into a madhouse, he said. "Don't worry, it will be a season just like any other year." A Resistance hero, the burly mayor owned the tidy Beau-Rivage Hotel and was the most popular man in town. He did not mention the threatening letters...
Before dawn one morning last week, a plastic-bomb* explosion wrecked Mayor Blanc's ancient Citroën, parked in front of the Beau-Rivage. Blanc leaped out of bed and ran for a phone in a ground floor office-just as the bombers had expected. Fifteen seconds after the first bomb, a second and larger one exploded on the window sill of the office, blowing off Blanc's shoulder and part of his face. "They got me," he gasped and 15 minutes later he died. Who were "they"? Presumably right-wingers who want no parleying with...
...possible clue to the mystery disappearance of France's late Captain Charles Nungesser, who vanished somewhere over the Atlantic 34 years ago. Lodged in the pot was a fragment of an instrument panel, which may have come from Nungesser's ill-fated biplane, L'Oiseau Blanc. On May 8, 1927, the dashing Nungesser and his navigator, François Coli, took off from Paris, aiming at the $25,000 Orteig Prize, which awaited the first man to fly nonstop between Paris and New York-and which was won by Charles Lindbergh for his solo flight twelve days...
...Riou rises with the predawn peal of his chapel bells, works a 17-hour day. He finds time to preach an hour-long sermon in Creole each Sunday. "Here all goes well," he wrote a friend recently. "Patients, as usual, are numerous." To Haitians, Father Riou is a "bon blanc"-good white...
...wonder last year as a big orange balloon carrying two passengers floated back and forth across the country. Photographed by movie cameras in an accompanying helicopter, the balloon whisked by the spires of the Strasbourg Cathedral, almost bumped into the Eiffel Tower, skimmed within a few yards of Mont Blanc, dipped down to mast level over the Riviera. In Paris last week the resulting film, Voyage in a Balloon, gave audiences a stunning cloud's-eye view of virtually every remarkable tourist sight in France...