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...blacktop pavement is eaten away from below. The guilty parties in both cases are microorganisms that go for hydrocarbons like kittens lapping spilled cream. Until recently no one made much of the hungry bugs' peculiar tastes blast week Research Director Alfred Champagnat of Société Française des Pétroles, a subsidiary of British Petroleum Co Ltd. announced that he has domesticated the oil eaters and that they are excellent food for both man and beast...
Actress Mauban's show was produced by the French government's RTF (Radio-diffusion Télévision Français). In 39 quarter-hour episodes, titled Les Français Chez Vous (The French People in Your Home), the series uses mimes, comedians and chausonniers to act out idioms and grammatical structure. Actress Addams' show is the work of Hachette, the big Paris publisher that supplies every French schoolchild with books. Titled En France Comme Si Vous y Etiez (As If You Were in France), it guides the audience through 26 half-hour slices...
...Scotch is the chic drink. Françoise Sagan's heroes and heroines would not be caught dead or in bed drinking cognac. When they ask for their Scotch by brand, most Frenchmen specify Ballanteen, Egg et Egg or Black et Huit. But mostly it's just "Donnez-moi un baby"-half a shot of Scotch...
Turmoil & Calm. The Barbizon artist most misunderstood in later years was Jean François Millet, whose studies of peasants, notably The Angelus and The Man with a Hoe, splashed him with a reputation for sentimentality. Millet himself protested that he could not understand how anybody could consider the French peasant "jolly," and today, seen afresh, the paintings justify his protests. He painted his peasants with brooding compassion, saw in them "true humanity, the great poetry," but the mood is somber rather than sentimental. They bend to their labors patiently but also hopelessly, condemned to struggle against stubborn nature...
Europe's most venerable U.S. newspaper observed its 75th anniversary in Paris last week-appropriately enough, at a special performance of the Comédie Française, the world's oldest theatrical troupe...