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...article "Revolt & Revenge" [Sept. 5] is a good treatment of the subject, but pour-quoi do you find it necessaire to interrupt your English-speaking readers' trains of thought every now and again with un mot français? The practice strikes me as a bit stupide...
...almost daily added other places to the disaster list. Orissa's finance minister said: "We still do not know what s happening because we have not made contact with 25% of the villages." After a flying survey of the subcontinental ruin, the International Red Cross's Dr. François Daubenton estimated that the floods had wrecked 28,000 villages, damaged or destroyed the homes of 45 million people. There was no way to count the cost. "In my 35 years of public health experience in Europe, Africa and Asia," said Dr. Daubenton, "I have never seen...
...minute cramming was wholly unnecessary. The question: identify five dishes and two wines on the now-famous menu of a royal banquet given in 1939 by King George VI for French President Albert Lebrun. The items: Consommé Quenelles, Filet de truite saumonée, Petits Pois à la française, Sauce maltaise, Corbeille, Château Yquem; Madeira Sercial. The minute he heard it, Captain McCutchen knew he was rich.* Inside the isolation booth he conferred with his father-advisor (for appearance sake only, it seemed), cracked his knuckles, and cracked out the answers. Squealed Emcee Hal March...
Another Legion task force mopped up around Oued Zem. Under Colonel Fran-gois Boreill (who led the fine French battalion in Korea), 4,000 or more Legionnaires, supported by two tank companies, drew a tight steel net around the Smala tribal area. After two days of bitter fighting in the barren, rocky uplands, Boreill closed the net. Soon afterwards, he spotted a band of Berbers approaching his command post, waving white flags...
...communion, a tragic but glorious experience which transfigured men. It made his generation aware of a new kind of contemporary hero, the "engaged man," at grips with the vital issues of history. It won the Prix Goncourt, and Gide described it as "panting with an anguish almost unbearable." Cried François Mauriac: "Here is a youth who since adolescence has been moving against society, a dagger in his hand, and who to stab it has sought out its most vulnerable point, in Asia . . . But look! He has talent, more talent than any other youth...