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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week the men of State learned how naive they had been. In Moscow the Russian government announced that it was expelling two assistant U.S. attachées, Lieut. Colonel Howard Felchlin (Army) and Major Walter McKinney (Air), for "espionage work." The Soviet newspaper Trud had accused them of spying on a train trip across Siberia eleven months ago. After the Moscow announcement, State Department officials rushed forward to announce that they had done the first expelling, albeit secretly, and that Moscow's action was obviously retaliation...
...formulas of his own. Up every day at 4 a.m., he works for about four hours before leaving for his office. Promptly at 7 every evening, Health Enthusiast Servan-Schreiber ("We French eat too much and exercise too little") and his ten-man staff cross the Champs-Elysées to a gym where, in identical blue gym suits, they work out for at least an hour. After the workout he returns to his office, works until he falls asleep, and is awakened by a night editor, who sends him home...
...Pompadour. The flowers in her many gardens "were renewed every day, as we renew them now in a room" (the greenhouses at Trianon alone held 2,000,000 pots). At her town house in Paris, she thought nothing of taking "a big bite into the Champs Elysées for her kitchen garden" (it would have been much bigger if Parisians had not burst out in a storm of rage). The secret police were in her pocket. In affairs of state, "nothing was decided without her knowledge"; in the Seven Years' War (in which France lost her Canadian colony...
France's greatest holidays-the ninth anniversary of V-E day and the feast day of Joan of Arc. There was little rejoicing on the gaily beflagged, sunshiny boulevards, but neither was there much demonstration. On the V-E holiday, police lined the Champs Elysées to protect the government ministers who came to the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at the Arch of Triumph. President René Coty-whose badge of office usually excites big applause -got only a scattering of handclaps. Premier Laniel's car rolled past and some shouted and hissed. "Send...
...full-fledged university professors. As a result, says Deputy Charles Viatte, "each year practically all the professors who receive their agrégation in physics immediately abandon the teaching profession. The agrégation is the degree which normally should lead them to teach in lycées and universities, but industry offers them salaries which are three times higher than university pay." Added a spokesman for the teachers' federation: "Our teachers . . . make less money than a trained mechanic in a garage. Almost any butcher or grocer has a higher standard of living than our university professors...