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Days of Fear. Through the days of the Indo-Chinese crisis ran a real thread of fear. Rumors of De Gaulle's return to politics ran through Paris. (It is a fact that he is leaving his retreat at Colombey-les-Deux-Eglises for an apartment in the Boulevard de Courcelles...
...drafted and became a Navy physical-education instructor. He is married to ex-Ballerina Anna Scarpova. Their ten-month-old daughter Maria, Youskevitch says, "stays on her pointes very good." During his first week with the new Ballet Theater company Youskevitch appeared only in three short pas de deux with Ballerinas Alicia Alonso and Nora Kaye. For the rest of the season he will dance leads in the classic ballets: Swan Lake, Giselle and Les Sylphides...
...history, the Opera lifted all its backdrops, baring the entire 185-ft.-deep stage. Even members of the orchestra stood up in the pit to watch. Then stagehands in new blue uniforms (they refused to appear before the Americans in faded ones) changed sets, set up scenery for Les Deux Pigeons in two minutes, 30 seconds. In the lobby at intermission G.I.s talked knowingly of entrechats, and of how Nijinsky must have looked as Albrecht in Giselle. A U.S. newsman, hoping to send home a breezy story about mugs on a night out, stopped 100 soldiers, asked them if this...
There were no eggs for omelettes at La Mère Poulard's famous restaurant on Mont-Saint-Michel. Customers shivered in the cold behind the glass winter windows of the Café de la Paix, the Deux Magots...
Thus last September he wrote in the Revue des Deux Mondes: "Not being in vassalage to any individual interest or group of interests, the new French State has the freedom, the strength and, I may add, the will to play its role of arbiter, and by meting out stern and impartial justice to assure that triumph of the general welfare over individual rights which is so important for the maintenance of national unity...