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...Valkyrie is revolutionary, from its stainless steel skin (withstanding 600° temperatures) to its configuration (vast delta wings aft; short, duck-winged "canard" control surfaces in the nose...
...Vian's greatest success was still The Spitter, and to ensure accuracy in the movie version, the producer sent Director Michel Gast to the U.S. to soak up atmosphere. The outlandish results seemed more than satisfactory to French critics. "Nothing shocks us in this reconstitution," reported Le Canard Enchaineé "It is as if we were seeing an American film perfectly dubbed." Only the Paris Herald Tribune's Critic Thomas Quinn Curtiss spotted the movie as "absurd and scandalously inaccurate," labeled it a "silly, sour travesty of American life...
...After ten months on the payroll of Dominican Dictator Rafael Trujillo, Ernst declared in a 95-page report that he had not found one scrap of evidence to link his eminent employer to the unsolved Galindez-Murphy case (TIME, April 2, 1956 et seq.). He airily dismissed as a "canard" the strong circumstantial case that leads newsmen and the FBI to a single theory: that Trujillo Critic Jesús de Galindez was kidnaped on his way home from giving a Columbia University lecture on March 12, 1956, drugged, and flown to a small airport in the Dominican Republic...
...been resolved were it not for the unreconstructed imperialist who skulks within the breast of so many Frenchmen. Cynical about government, about grandeur and glory, Frenchmen nonetheless are vulnerable to exhortations that France must rank high among the nations and be respected. ("Respect?" wrote one wag in Paris' Canard Enchaineé last week. "I don't want to respect France. I only want to sleep with...
...even worse business to make a dollar and lose a friend. Perhaps no one will argue the point, but every American is entitled to resent the way the point is made. Scriptwriter Robert Ardrey, who worked from the novel by Howard Swiggett, unfortunately felt obliged to revive an ancient canard that has been a dead duck for a long time. Americans, the script suggests, are rich but vulgar; Europeans are poor but cultured...