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Confession. In this jittery atmosphere, the ultra-right-wing weekly Rivarol appeared with a mocking, triumphant story. A onetime Deputy of the crackpot Poujadist right wing, one Robert Pesquet, 42, charged that he had faked the attempt on Mitterrand's life, and he had done it in connivance with Mitterrand himself. Leftist Mitterrand, said Pesquet, had conceived the scheme as a means of provoking a police crackdown on the rightists, had worked out the details in a series of three rendezvous with Pesquet. The only hitch, according to Pesquet, had come after Mitterrand had jumped the fence into...
...firm opinions about federal price-support programs, are now as baffled by the massive, $7 billion-a-year farm-glut scandal as the experts, the Eisenhower Administration and Congress (TIME, March 2). "Not a single farmer," Lubell reported last week for United Feature Syndicate, "could offer even a crackpot solution to the surplus problem." And a "sizable majority of farmers confessed they thought there might be no solution...
...reach deep among the least-educated, lowest-paid Negroes jammed into big-city slums from Harlem to Los Angeles. Muhammad's virulent anti-Americanism and antiSemitism, plus his elite corps of dark-suited, shaven-polled young "honor guards," has lifted him well beyond the run-of-the-street crackpot Negro nationalist groups. The Moslems are of rising concern to respectable Negro civic leaders, to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, to police departments in half a dozen cities...
...written with tact. Alexis Curvers' light and serious novel is a moving love letter to the city of Rome. It consists of the memoirs of Jimmy, an exquisitely cultivated Belgian bum who gets a job as a tourist guide in the Holy City and finds a few shadowy, crackpot friends. There is Sir Craven, so named for his Craven "A" cigarettes, a fop straight out of the Oscar Wilde era and The Yellow Book. There is a businesslike crook named Enrico, and there is a beautiful girl named Geronima, who tucks a flower into Jimmy's buttonhole each...
...Countries last week were running a low fever about their royal families. In The Netherlands, Queen Juliana took a dressing down in the press for inviting to her palace a crackpot U.S. space traveler named George Adamski (TIME, June 1). In Belgium, the newspapers fumed about ex-King Leopold, who was forced to abdicate eight years ago in favor of his eldest son Baudouin, but did not move out of the royal palace at Laeken or stop meddling in affairs of state...