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...ASSASSINATION BUREAU. Looking for something to take the family to on a rainy Saturday afternoon? This is it. The kids will love all the improbable derring-do, and parents may find themselves getting an occasional laugh out of all the frantic proceedings...
...speculate on the future of France and the rest of the world après De Gaulle. When mirage became reality on the evening of April 27, our correspondents were well-prepared to cover the cataclysm. Sensing in advance that France would say non to the general, Paris Bureau Chief William Rademaekers, a veteran European reporter, had assigned six correspondents-all French-speaking-to cover France's leading politicians, four major provincial cities and news sources in the capital...
...journalists, covering President De Gaulle was almost as arduous and frustrating an assignment as reporting on mainland China from Hong Kong. One of the most expert Gaullologists in the business is Curtis Prendergast, now TIME'S London bureau chief, who contributed to this week's cover. During a nine-year term in Paris, Prendergast accompanied the general on ten tours of France's provinces and two dramatic descents on war-torn Algeria, as well as on ceremonial visits to Senegal, Mauritania, Greece, Mexico, the West Indies and Cambodia...
...YORK TIMES'S ROBERT B. SEMPLE JR. Simultaneously witty and scholarly, Semple, 32, came to the Times's Washington bureau six years ago from the National Observer. A smooth writer and sharp analyst, he replaced Veteran Max Frankel (who became Washington bureau chief) at the White House in January. Although Semple does not get from Nixon the sort of spoon-feeding that L.B.J. used to give the Times, he has developed solid White House sources and used them to produce, for example, the most revealing backstage report of how Nixon arrived at his ABM decision...
Portent of Decline. The consumer price index, of course, is a better indicator of the past than of the future direction of the economy. Says Economist Arnold Chase, assistant commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics: "Prices tend to coast up even after the economy has begun to cool off. There has been no fuel added to the fire for several months." Several special circumstances, moreover, contributed to the March price increases. One was the fact that high interest rates were suddenly included in the figure for home ownership costs. Prices for used cars, which swung downward temporarily last year...