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...gang of wildcatters toiling after oil in the broiling Sahara sun found themselves regarded last week as France's best hope of the future. Their latest dramatic find, tapped and capped at Hassi Messaoud, in the southeastern quarter of war-torn Algeria, skyrocketed shares of the Compagnie Française des Pétroles from 34,000 francs last year to 61,000 francs two weeks ago. From Hassi Messaoud and neighboring Algerian fields recently opened, there was now the promise of an assured yield of 60 million bbl. of oil a year. (Controlled 1956 production by U.S. wells...
...Marie-Claire was not only pretty and well-to-do but astonishingly broadminded. Eleven years after their marriage, Dr. Evenou was happily established at the head of a three-story household whose floors, reading from top to bottom, were occupied by 1) his mother, 2) his wife and daughter Françoise, and 3) his mistress Simone...
...Helping Hand. Simone, a stocky dressmaker in her late '40s, was as ugly as Marie-Claire was pretty, but she was an obliging sort who was always glad to pitch in and stitch up a dress for Françoise, to cook a meal, or to give old mother Evenou a hand with the household chores. Besides, as the doctor himself told a friend, "she may not be beautiful, but she knows how to love." For some months things went along swimmingly. Then, as a man with too much often will. Dr. Evenou grew bored. "My first two wives...
...Welk, whose climb to the No. 5 position in the ratings began with a summer replacement spot two years ago, will obligingly tootle all summer long. Grand Inquisitor Mike Wallace, the chain's "biggest" new talent, will be around on Sunday nights. Already filling in for vacationing Kukla, Fran & Ollie is Sports Focus, a new show featuring sports news and interviews with top athletes. There will also be reruns of many ABC standbys...
...took up this venerable museum work, turned it over like an old coat, recut it and adjusted it to his own measurements." Painted in 1954-55, the exercise was also Picasso's way of working off the melancholy caused by the departure of his companion of eight years, Françoise Gilot, who one day suddenly left, taking their two children with her, announcing: "I was tired of living with a historical monument...