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...their homes when the police arrived. The rest of the white settler population, confined by a 9 p.m. curfew, gathered on balconies and roofs, threw rocks and vegetables at police search parties and beat pots and pans in the three-short-two-long rhythm of "Al-gé-rie Fran-çaise...
...coming peace talks, were delirious with joy at the news of the revolt. They took to the streets in cheering crowds and drove about Algiers in their cars, sounding three short honks and two long ones on their horns, symbolizing the old ultra battle cry: Al-gé-rie Fran-çaise. They scarcely cared that the army was not fighting primarily for the colons, whom it scorns, but for its own concept of army honor. Humiliated in World War II, defeated again at Dienbienphu, France's career soldiers are obsessed with proving that they can win a campaign...
...seven years, the stylistic elegance of Nobel Laureate François Mauriac graced the back page of Paris' lively L'Express with a conscientious Catholic conservatism that seemed startlingly out of place in the left-wing weekly. Last week the agreement to disagree came to an end when Mauriac quit, flew to the side of his President. "Mauriac loves De Gaulle as the English love their Queen," said L'Express Editor Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber. "For us, De Gaulle is only a politician and love is not a problem. François Mauriac has abandoned his fight...
...Paris prostitutes were appearing, for $40, on Faire Face (Let's Face It), a documentary on the government-owned Radiodiffusion-Télévision Française (RTF), long known for the sexy shock value of its programing. Along with the interviews, the program-using cameras concealed in cruising trucks-showed dozens of girls plying their trade. Audience response was everything RTF had hoped for: 6,000 letters in one week, some demanding police cleanups or the re-establishment of government-controlled brothels, others requesting names and addresses. Most startling reaction: five girls who had been secretly photographed...
...cubism. He is agin' progressive educators. Method actors, permissive parents, Vedantists, Taoists, Zen Buddhists and Bohemians. Getting personal, he is agin' Jean Jacques Rousseau, Arthur Schopenhauer. Walt Whitman, Alfred Kinsey. Adlai Stevenson, Aldous Huxley, Jack Paar, Caryl Chessman, Erich Fromm, Boris Pasternak, Charles Van Doren, Tennessee Williams, Françoise Sagan, Jack Kerouac, Norman Mailer, Allen Ginsberg, Archibald MacLeish, Albert Camus. Samuel Beckett, D. T. Suzuki and James F. Powers. He is also agin...