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...colons and paratroopers in Algeria rose in revolt. But now, a decade after his second call to service, France is caught up in almost as much chaos as?and perhaps more than?when De Gaulle came to power in 1958. The question is, Can De Gaulle once again save France???this time from himself...
...renounce the right to produce nuclear weapons, it is disappointed that it is still feared and mistrusted as a potential nuclear menace. It is tired of being the favorite whipping boy of Russia and the Communist countries, which take every opportunity?as did Premier Aleksei Kosygin last week in France???to attack its policies and raise the specter of neo-Nazism or fascism. It wishes devoutly that De Gaulle would stop chiding it for not following his leadership, as if Germany were a nation of schoolboys. "Whichever way the Federal Republic turns," said Herbert Wehner in a remark that...
...chief stock in trade. During his stage & screen career, he played a succession of brazen rascals: fraudulent attorney, flimflamming explorer, dissolute college president, amoral private eye, cozening operatic entrepreneur, horse doctor posing as a fashionable neurologist ("Either this man is dead or my watch has stopped"), bogus Emperor of France???using such aliases as J. Cheever Loophole, Captain Spaulding, Professor Wagstaff, Detective Sam Grunion, Otis. B. Driftwood, Wolf J. Flywheel and Napoleon. Whatever the alias or whatever the rascality, he was always the same rascal, the con man who made no bones about the disdain he felt for the suckers...
...lady's wrists when he suspects her of liking one of his stunt flyers and then rubs corrosive acid on the control wires of that pilot's plane. At this point, the esprit de corps of the stunt flyers*?three pilots who belonged to the same unit in France???reasserts itself. One (Robert Armstrong) against whom the director has no grudge, takes off in the damaged plane. The one (Richard Dix) whom the director hoped to kill, follows him in a sound machine. The third (Joel McCrea) stays on the ground, threatening the director with firearms...
French Coolidge. Twelve months ago Pierre Laval was as obscure?even in France???as Governor Calvin Coolidge before the Boston police strike...