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Shrewd Delay. Algeria was a word much spoken also in a courtroom in suburban Vincennes, where nine would-be assassins were on trial for having tried to kill De Gaulle last August in an ambuscade at Petit-Clamart, a Paris suburb. As has so often happened in France since the Dreyfus case of the 1890s, the trial was not confined to pertinent evidence but blossomed into a national political affair. Very few Frenchmen had much sympathy for the defendants, but many had grave doubts about how they were being tried...
...Deux-Eglises were President Charles de Gaulle and his wife Yvonne; up front with the chauffeur was the De Gaulles' son-in-law, Alain de Boissieu. Close behind followed a security car and two motorcycle policemen. As the small motorcade slowed down for a traffic circle in suburban Clamart, Old Soldier de Gaulle once again faced the guns of an enemy...
...Secret Army Organization, which has assigned nine "suicide squads" to the task of eliminating De Gaulle. Since fleeing from Algeria, S.A.O. gunmen have murdered scores of S.A.O. enemies, and obtained over $1,500,000 in holdups of French banks and post offices. Just minutes before the ambush at Clamart, De Gaulle had presided over an emergency Cabinet meeting called to take steps against S.A.O. terrorism...
...gnats, mosquitoes, ants and chiggers. George Washington's white-pillared manor house was equipped with electric lights for the first time in its history. White House Chef René Verdon presided proudly over Army field kitchens that served avocado and crabmeat mimosa, poulet chasseur avec couronne de riz clamart (hunter-style chicken with rice), framboises à la crème Chantilly and petits jours secs. After dinner, the guests strolled across the lawn to rows of camp chairs, settled back for a concert by the National Symphony Orchestra (selections: Mozart's Allegro con Spirito from Symphony...
...masterpiece." Sculptor Harold Cousins, from Washington, D.C., has lived nine years in Paris, sold a sculpture last month to the Claude Bernard Gallery, and has been commissioned by Susse, the famed bronze caster, to do a mobile. Painter Beauford Delaunay, from Tennessee, lives in a small cottage in suburban Clamart and exhibits his work at the avant-garde Facchetti Gallery on the Left Bank...