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...known as mayor of the town of Château-Chinon, president of Nièvre's departmental council and "our Deputy" in the National Assembly. "This is his fief," said one peasant in the farming town of Montsauche (pop. 850). "Around here he is simply known as Fran...
...title of a book of verse by Dorothy Parker. May sampled little of Parker's bittersweet wit, however, in constructing this glimpse of a bored, nervous girl who mimes her Judy Garland records to entertain herself. Only the precise direction by Lindsay Davis and the believable hysteria of Fran Davis, as the girl, Edith, save the play from coming off as a losing entry in a high school dramatic interp contest. Whether she is coating her mouth with red lipstick or trying to engage her neighbor Claude in conversation, Fran Davis evokes more sympathy than her role warrants...
...from France's general discontent have all flowed to the United Left. Georges Marchais, 52, the bluff-spoken Communist leader, made major concessions when he agreed to form the union with the Socialists, a coalition of nonCommunist, leftist parties reorganized in 1965 by an old De Gaulle foe, François Mitterrand, 56. As a result, the union program is rather more socialist than Communist; it calls for nationalization of banks, insurance companies and major firms in "strategic industries." Even so, the prospect of even more government control in an economy that is already 12% nationalized worries many Frenchmen...
...book, which is the account of a solitary white boy's troubled 14th year on his family's ranch in southern Rhodesia, gracefully carries a fairly heavy load of earnest emotion. During a year of violent events that bring his childhood to an end, young François Joubert, whose Huguenot ancestors settled in Africa 300 years ago, encounters three men of extraordinary nobility: a Bushman-hunter, a prophet and healer, and a Matabele chief. Their influence moves him toward a rejection of European attitudes...
...forbids the operation except to save a woman's life. Nobel-prizewinning Biochemist Jacques Monod testified that, in his opinion, a fetus only a few weeks old could not be considered a "human being." Author Simone de Beauvoir denounced the law as an oppression of women, while Actresses Françoise Fabian and Delphine Seyrig said that they were equally guilty, since they too had had abortions...