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...favor, he abruptly falls in love with her. The bookkeeper celebrates his new ascendancy by lighting cigarettes Bogart-style and shaking his head in the worldly way of Edward G. Robinson. She rents a preposterous weekend apartment in Lille, where she and Gueret calculate their future in the Congo or Senegal, "two unlikely, hardworking lovers...planning for their years of triumph and luxury." But Mme. Biron has also got in touch with an old gangster crony in Marseille to help her fence the jewels, and after that, reality takes a brutal measure of the couple's dreams...
Roads built by European engineers are being gradually swallowed up by the bush. When Zaïre, then known as the Belgian Congo, gained its independence in 1960, it had 58,000 miles of good roads; now only 6,200 miles are passable...
Kennedy's tenure was littered with messy crises-in Laos, Cuba, the Congo, Latin America, Algeria, Viet Nam and Berlin-and his record in dealing with them is decidedly uneven. Revisionists like to say that Kennedy was a cold warrior who sought confrontation, but in the early '60s, the Soviets busied themselves around the world in ways that no American President could ignore...
...arcades still open in the U.S. will be forced out of business within a few years. Sales of new machines to the parlors have stalled. Ira Bettelman, vice president of a major arcade-game distributor in Los Angeles, complains of being burdened with inventories of "flops," like Congo Bongo, which he now sells for 40% of its original $2,500 price...
Owen named them, "the old Lie," few periods of history seem to have relished war more, or taken to it more readily. From the array of wars that have ravaged Europe, the Middle East, the Congo, Korea, Malaya, Viet Nam and Central America in our times, with new sites added almost daily, one might conclude that the main characterizing idea of the past 60 years was war itself. (Who could have dreamed up the war in the Falklands?) It follows that what will have mattered most about these years is the apparent universal desire to knock each other...