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...were on the roof of the Palais de Justice, at the doors, and inside the dim-lit gilt and paneled courtroom. On the dais sat a nine-man tribunal consisting of three French generals, three magistrates, two civilians and an admiral. In the dock last week appeared bullnecked, tough Edmond Jouhaud. 57. a former general who served as air force chief of staff, most recently No. 2 chieftain of the Secret Army Organization in Algeria, where last month he was ignominiously arrested without a fight...
Enter FSAgent McCloskey (Edmond O'Brien), a sort of secret inoperative who growls all the right things ("Send this to the lab-and tell them to rush it ... There will be NO slipups!"), does all the wrong things, and spends his spare time staring wide-eyed at the cops-and-robbers shows on TV. Since McCloskey has never caught anything more elusive than a cold, it's a cinch he can't catch Lyrae, who has been sent from a friendly planet to correct a defect in the moon rocket. Alas, such is interplanetary life, she falls...
...Oran, the army had better luck. Troops searching an apartment block turned up a bearded man with curious credentials; after hours of interrogation, he admitted that he was ex-General Edmond Jouhaud, the S.A.O.'s No. 2 man. Jouhaud was promptly flown to France for the trial that might cost him his life...
...morning of April 23, a plane touched down at Maison Blanche airport outside Algiers, and out stepped Raoul Salan. The city was already in the hands of Salan's fellow plotters: Generals Maurice Challe (who had succeeded Salan in Algeria), Andre Zeller and Edmond Jouhaud. Rushing to his villa in Hydra, Salan kissed his wife, put on his uniform and all 36 of his decorations, and hurried to Challe's headquarters on the Forum...
Eagles Mere, Pa., Playhouse: Edmond Rostand's classic romance, Cyrano de Bergerac...