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Another crowd-stopper was Citroën's grey canvas-topped Deux Chevaux (for its 2 h.p.-10 U.S. h.p.), a famed little low-priced, four-passenger model sporting an automatic gearshift, the first in a cheap French car. The gears change automatically as the engine increases and decreases its speed. If Deux Chevaux is successful, Citroën will concentrate on producing clutchless cars...
Conversations à deux. Pierre Mendès-France was a man traveling on momentum. He had no natural following in the Assembly, and had to exploit swiftly the prestige he won at Geneva. But even if he had not promised prompt action on Tunisia, some action would have been required by the situation. In the past month Tunisian terrorists have made 130 attacks on colons and pro-French compatriots, killing 93 victims, wounding...
Mendès' plan for Tunisia (which, if successful, he may try to adapt for Algeria and Morocco) emerged from ten days of intensive conferences. Mendès used his favorite method of conversations à deux-knocking heads together. This time he set up two-man meetings between French officials and Arab representatives of the Neo-Destour (or Tunisian Nationalist) Party. His most useful collaborator was the Arab's No. 1 nationalist, the ascetic-looking, white-haired Habib Bourguiba, 51, exiled leader of the Neo-Destour. In an adroit move Mendès transferred Bourguiba from lonely sequestration...
...huge opening-night program featured no fewer than 13 separate items, from brief solo dances and pas de deux to the whole third act from Romeo and Juliet. For Western tastes, the costumes were both overly lavish and tacky (although the ballerinas are usually sewn into them), and the sets seemed stodgy. But the dancing was just about as good as legend...
...Right Ahead." For the first time in five months, the general had come out of the rural isolation of Colombey-les-Deux-Eglises (pop. 312) to exhort his withering but still formidable army into renewed assaults on the French government and its policies. For France's most powerful ally, he had recrimination: "The U.S. wishes to hold in check the Soviet block-but not engage its own troops . . .They sent money and material to Indo-China-but left the French to do the fighting. They are ready to arm any country to fight the Russians-and if necessary command...