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...days after his narrow escape from death, Charles de Gaulle went to Mass near his country home at Colombey-les-Deux-Eglises. Then, on his way back to Paris, just like hundreds of other Frenchmen, he stopped to gawk at the site of the attempted assassination. Full of scorn for the bungled job, which police still attribute to the right-wing Secret Army Organization (S.A.O.), De Gaulle cracked: "You know, those birds of the S.A.O. are as stupid as the fellows who guard...
Three nights after the Kirov's debut, Sizova stopped the show again with Yuri Soloviev in a wildly exuberant pas de deux from Marius Petipa's Corsair, part of a program of excerpts that the troupe brought off with virtuosity and vigor...
...Bolshoi is flamboyant, dramatic and unabashedly fond of popular acclaim, the Kirov is precise, understated, a trifle aristocratic. The Bolshoi's prima ballerina may dash the length of the stage to leap into Prince Siegfried's arms with breathtaking drama in the Black Swan pas de deux of Swan Lake; Zubkovskaya takes a few brief steps and makes the leap with a rippling grace that is equally breathtaking. The Kirov's tempo is more often a stately adagio than a flashy presto, and the spectacular is always shunned for the stylistic. But as the visitors spin through...
Neither Berlin nor Bizerte was most on Charles de Gaulle's mind last week as he returned to his village of Colombey-les-deux-Eglises for twelve days' meditation. Too soon to get up steam about Berlin, he told everyone. As for Bizerte. the news that the Afro-Asian bloc got the 50 states needed to call a special session of the U.N. General Assembly brought only the cold reply that France would boycott it. What really troubled De Gaulle was Algeria...
...Algeria alone cannot win. The obvious conclusion: it will come to power only after De Gaulle is gone, exploiting the confusion caused by his departure. This leads some of them to wish to speed the day, and accounts for the increased security precautions in Paris and in Colombey-les-deux-Eglises...