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...opening rally in a "Month of National Gratefulness to Duvalier," and the speaker was a henchman of Haiti's Dictator. Françpois Duvalier himself was on hand, surrounded by helmeted palace guards and blue-denimed militiamen. He had given orders for his men to explain to Haitians just what would happen in their tiny Caribbean Negro republic if anyone should try to topple "Papa...
...screenplay and dialogue are by Françoise Sagan; she and Chabrol started out to do a picture about the life of George Sand, but became bored with the idea and switched from blue story to Bluebeard in mid-project. The film is mean to ladies in more ways than murder. Its closeups of fading Film Queens Danielle Darrieux and Michele Morgan constitute a photographic invasion of privacy. One corpulent beldam, a doomed weekend guest at Landru's Art Nouveau rookery near Paris, eats raspberries from Landru's hand and ends up with jam dribbling wretchedly down...
...Because they cling to obsolete slogans," thundered Gaullist Minister François Missoffe last week, "the unions will suffer the same fate as the political parties and be demolished." But things did not work out quite that way. In France's northern coal fields, 188,000 miners wore smiles of victory as they trooped back to the pits after their bitter 35-day strike. Defying a government antistrike decree that could have resulted in fines, firings and jail terms, the miners had won an immediate 6.5% pay boost that will rise to 12.5% by next April...
Amateur Cartoonist Kincaid's Contes Français now reaches 1,209,000 subscribers to five daily newspapers, from the Toledo Blade to the Detroit News. The plot is Les Misérables, "adapted to a sixth-grader's interest," and the grammar is passably taxing. Cosette : "Je voudrais alter voir cette cathedrale, père!" Valjean: "Nous irons demain." Admittedly no linguist, Mrs. Kincaid checks each strip with a retired French professor, but so far she has not failed...
Died. Henry Bordeaux, 93, oldest of the 39 immortals in the Académie Française, author of more than 100 books, one of France's most popular novelists at the turn of the century, when his novels, such as La Robe de Laine, caught the mood of the late Victorian era, extolling the ideals of family life, religious piety and love of one's country; in Paris...