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...these buildings pale beside the medieval masterpieces in the city's historic center. The most awe-inspiring is the early medieval Cathédrale de Notre Dame. During the Middle Ages the 142 m steeple was Europe's tallest, and it still soars above the surrounding townhouses like a skyscraper. If the weather is foul, take a short stroll to the Palais Rohan, which houses the city's magnificent collection of 15th to 19th century art. But if it's fine, head for the water. Strasbourg is criss-crossed by a network of canals that converge in the picturesque quarter...
...Pianist Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, Deutsche Grammophon). Any recording by the reclusive Michelangeli is an event. His Debussy is almost transparent. Light seems to flicker and dance throughout, creating moments of incandescent beauty. The carefree Les collines d'Anacapri and the eerie stillness of La cathédrale engloutie are special joys...
Within hours, the Corsican and North African hoods who control Parisian prostitution and crime began oiling their revolvers as they eyed the tempting spoils. Lodged high on the shoulder of Montmartre, just below the soaring domes of the Cathédrale du Sacré-Coeur, the Place Pigalle by day is a dreary, working-class square crowded with Algerians. At night, the square and the nearby alleys blossom into neon brilliance, offer to any passer-by probably the tawdriest and most expansive display of nude female flesh the world has seen since the passing of the Babylonian slave market. Prostitutes...
Just as the noon Angelus pealed from the Cathédrale Saint-Jean-Baptiste one day last week, an earth-shaking rumble ran through the Quebec town of Nicolet (pop. 5,500). The old cathedral, built in 1757, trembled and its tall white spires tilted. The foundations of the nearby Bishop's palace crumbled and the building sank to its eaves in the mud. A Christian Brothers school toppled into the Nicolet River. A hole 40 ft. deep and 1,000 ft. long suddenly opened in the ground, swallowing an apartment house, three private homes and a service station...
Alexis de Villeneuve, M.R.P. candidate, was speaking at a rally in the Place de la Cathédrale, main square of the island's capital, Saint-Denis. He was interrupted by a group which included Paul Verges, son of Reunion's Communist Deputy. According to the M.R.P. paper L'Aube, the hecklers rattled nails in empty kettles and banged iron spoons against pots & pans. Whereupon De Villeneuve turned on his tormentors and cried: "If you have any questions to ask, ask them in a proper way." Verges yelled back "Yes. How does the candidate like this?" Whipping...