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...wake of Dictator Francisco Franco's government "crisis" and Cabinet shuffle (TIME, March 11), the café wits in Spain last week were passing around a punning version of the old Latin saw, Finis coronat opus (The end crowns the work). Crisis coronat Opus, they said, and the Opus they meant was Opus Dei-a little-known organization of Roman Catholic priests and laymen which, it was rumored, had nine or ten members in Franco's new 18-man Cabinet...
...engineers and architects) and his Egyptian "guest" in a tailor shop amiably debating the fit or fashion of assorted suits or shirts. The host took his Egyptian wherever he wanted to go, to see whatever he wanted to see. Some went to the movies, to concerts, sipped coffee in cafés, went shopping in Haifa or Jerusalem. Others visited factories, cooperative villages and kibbutzim...
...point of view by arguing with him," said a Foreign Ministry spokesman. "The most we could hope to do was to open his eyes." Some were hard to convince. One Egyptian refused to believe Israel was not starving until he ordered a ten-egg omelette in a café, was served it by the owner without comment...
...When Suzanne, at 18, gave birth to Maurice, the man most generally assumed to be the father was a no-account Sunday painter and alcoholic named Boissy whom Suzanne had met at the revels held at Montmartre's Chat Noir café. Suzanne herself was never very specific-and perhaps could not be. But last week Maurice's widow, Lucie Valore Utrillo, decided to erase the doubt about daddy. After a festive municipal lunch in her honor at Limoges, where Lucie was pushing her recently published book, Maurice Utrillo, My Husband, she announced that Utrillo's real...
...captured Mohammed ben Bella, feuded like Chicago-style gangs over the privilege of shaking down the city's 80,000 Algerians for contributions. One Algerian objected that he did not want to take sides; his body was fished out of the Seine a few days later. Café owners who contributed to the National Liberation Front had their stocks smashed by Hadj supporters. In 1956, 86 Algerians were murdered in this bitter civil war in Paris, and the rival gangs celebrated New Year's Day with a fusillade that killed six more...