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...marry a nameless woman whom he shares with a nameless lover? Befuddled, the bachelor turns for advice to a woman of the world (Françoise Prėvost), intelligent and dependably unemotional. Yet when he shows her a picture of the girl the woman suddenly turns pale and hurries away. Why? Obviously, the woman is the other dove in the nest. Not so obviously, she is also in love with the hero. Any other questions? The film answers them in passably explicit detail and with a sick romantic energy that Honoré de Balzac, who wrote the tale...
...noirs live in the same small apartment. Midtown Marseille has become one huge traffic jam as 800 pied-noir cars arrive from Algeria daily; and the newcomers have an irksome habit of breaking the city's antinoise ordinance by honking the five notes Al-gér-ie Fran-çaise on their car horns. Many angry parents have discovered that the hordes of children from Algeria enrolled in Marseille schools next fall have left no room for their own kids...
...about run out of patience with François Duvalier, the hard-eyed dictator who holds ruthless power in Haiti. All aid-amounting to $7,250,000 this year-to Duvalier's graft-ridden regime has been suspended for three months. No more arms are being sent in, and the U.S. has demanded a weapon-by-weapon accounting for the $1,100,000 worth shipped in since 1960 to equip Haiti's regular army, air force and coast guard. Now, Colonel Robert Debs Heinl Jr., chief of the 50-man U.S. Marine mission sent down to train Haiti...
Karl Bodmer lived the remainder of his life in Barbizon, the artists' colony in the forest of Fontainebleau outside Paris, painting and teaching. One of his protégés was Jean François Millet, and as Millet's fame ascended, Bodmer's diminished. Finally, in need of money, Bodmer was forced to sell part of his collection of Millet drawings and paintings. He died in 1893. His legacy of art was bought from Knoedler this summer by the Northern Natural Gas Co. of Omaha, whose board chairman, John Merriam, is a trustee...
...virtually free of tariff while slapping stiff duties on Latin American coffee. Now the Common Marketeers have agreed to slash their general coffee tariff by 40%, giving Latin American nations a chance to compete too, so that these hard-pressed nations will not require so much foreign aid. Explains Françoise Gavoty, France's delegate to the coffee conference: "We would rather pay higher prices for commodities than just give money away...