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These were small fry-an improbable bunch to mastermind a plot against the life of the President of France's Fifth Republic. The real responsibility, most Frenchmen suspected, must lie elsewhere. For its part, the S.A.O. haughtily denied complicity. Paris newspaper offices received a crude mimeographed declaration headed, "September 12, Somewhere in France"; it insisted that the attempt was "not ordered by our headquarters for the sole reason that our organization is not in readiness to take power in Metropolitan France." But few doubted that it was the intention of the S.A.O.'s thou sands of bitter extremist...
Conceivably, the Russians may have made a major technological breakthrough on some new nuclear device that is so important that testing outweighs all other factors; some American scientists feel that with luck, hard work and unlimited testing, the U.S. could develop within five years the first crude version of a neutron bomb, which would kill by neutrons but leave buildings more or less unharmed. Khrushchev recently warned U.S.'s John McCloy, President Kennedy's adviser on disarmament, that the Russians were working on the neutron-bomb idea themselves...
...Condon, a retired New York schoolteacher who, aroused by the crime, had written to the Bronx Home News offering his life's savings in exchange for the child. Condon got an answer in fractured English and bearing the same curious signature-two overlapping blue circles with three crude square holes cutting across the design-that had appeared on the ransom note...
Pine Slats. For the eventual conviction of the elusive John, the book largely credits a brilliant, scholarly xylotomist named Arthur Koehler, whose principal job was analyzing the one unmistakable clue left by the kidnaper: a crude wooden ladder that had been used to reach the nursery window. Koehler proved that the Southern pine slats in the ladder could only have been honed in one factory in South Carolina with a defective pulley on the planer, then traced the boards further to a lumberyard in The Bronx...
...best thing in the film. In the delicate, spiritual face of Actor Perrin, the camera finds a compelling image of eternal youth, of the doomed and beautiful son-lover of the legends. Actress Cardinale seems almost ludicrously crude by comparison. But her faults are not all her fault. Director Valeric Zurlini, a well-known cheesecake vendor, incessantly interrupts the subtle drama of the script to turn his lens on Claudia's chest. He obviously intends the show to be a bust. And so, in the last analysis...