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...were generally unheard in the shouting, music and indiscriminate firing in air-the traditional means of expressing high spirits in North Africa. Roads were blocked by cars whose horns blared out the six-count beat of "Algérie algérienne," instead of the hated five-count "Algerie française" of the European Secret Army...
...Born. To Franç Sagan, 27, French hunt-and-peek novelist of random dalliance who recently published her fifth (see BOOKS), and Robert Westhoff, 31, an expatriate U.S. sculptor: a boy; in Paris...
Jules and Jim. In France, love makes the world go triangular. Director François Truffaut (The 400 Blows) translates the ways of two men with a maid into a film that is charming, sick, hilarious, depressing, wise and, most of the time, quite wonderful...
Extraordinary Move. In Paris, right-wing Deputies in the National Assembly acted as if history were reversible. "We will never abandon the idea of Algerie Française!" cried Deputy Jean-Marie Le Pen. Despite the fact that De Gaulle has overwhelmingly won two national referendums on his Algeria policy, the rightists filed a motion of censure against the government, but were sharply defeated. Even as angry debate on the motion rang from the Assembly floor, news tickers clacked out word of an extraordinary move by ex-General Edmond Jouhaud, who was condemned to death last month by the same...
Jutes and Jim. Director François Truffaut's story of three young people in Paris is so spontaneous, sincere, generous, naive and natural that a spectator who sits down to watch it feeling old and dry may rise up feeling young and green...