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...local with the support of a chapter of the Socialist-dominated Confederation Franchise Democratique du Travail, the country's second largest trade union.* Also, a group of enlisted men wearing masks to hide their identities held a press conference to announce the creation of a similar union at Chaumont, 140 miles southeast of Paris. Since then, other illegal army organizations have sprung up, and a Socialist group was sighted recently distributing inflammatory leaflets at a Paris railway station to impressionable recruits on weekend passes...
Much gentler is 75-year-old Sydney Clark, whose All the Best books are pleasant introductions to 26 countries. Clark genuinely likes every place he goes, loves to lead his readers to spots that other guides ignore, such as the Buttes-Chaumont Park in Paris' 19th Arrondissement, but gives restaurants little more than a lick and hotels not much more than a promise...
When he could, John Foster Dulles loved to get away from it all on two private islands he owned on the Canadian side of Lake Ontario. Now a longtime Dulles friend, Chaumont, N.Y., Marina Operator Robert Hart, who had a cottage on the main island, has bought the hideaway for an undisclosed sum, promises to "keep it as it is." That's not quite what will happen to Franklin D. Roosevelt's old 165-ft. yacht Potomac. Up for auction, the vessel which the wartime President called his "Shangri-La," went for $55,000 to none other than...
...from France to Britain and West Germany. Reason: the French government would not let the U.S. ship the fighter-bombers' nuclear weapons into France unless the "nucs" were put under French control. A few days later, the F-100s began roaring off their bases at Toul, Etain and Chaumont, landed in new quarters at British and German alternate bases hard by the nuclear weapons, a combination that made NATO strength for the Berlin crisis that much solider...
...tents, tramping across muddy fields to exhume crates of spare parts stacked in the open for lack of hangar space. Ground controllers still radio instructions to hovering planes from the backs of olivedrab trucks, parked near the runways. At the 48th Fighter Bomber's bleak, bare base at Chaumont, the Chief of Staff...