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...this rate, and if the academicians can keep up their pace, the ninth edition of the Dictionnaire de l'Acadéemie Française will go on sale at the beginning of the 21st century...
...supremacy-apartheid (racial segregation)-ran afoul of South Africa's highest court. His administration tottered, and considered dangerous alternatives. The restless and politically awakening Negroes scheduled nationwide demonstrations in protests against his policy. The possibility of civil war hovered over South Africa, and a desperate decision faced Daniel François Malan, who had sown the whirlwind...
CREATIVE COOKERY. A local Chicago program with François Pope (Pope School of Fancy Cookery). The m.m. watch avidly, "despite the facts that the dishes are not, by & large, ones they will prepare, and that the dishes are too expensive for them to try." The thrill is purely vicarious...
Jour de Fête (Fred Orain; Mayer-Kingsley) transplants some Mack Sennett pratfalls to the French provinces. The center of this slapstick is François (Jacques Tati), a sad-faced, gangling, rural postman who looks like a cross between General Charles de Gaulle and oldtime silent Comic Charles Chase. On the annual fair day (jour de fête), François sees a movie about high-speed American postal methods and develops a mania for movement...
...dislike of the British crown, demagogic Premier Daniel Malan has been reinstating officers who refused to fight in what the Nationalists called "the British war," and moving them into commands above the officers who had served their country. Malan's Defense Minister, a handsome, rabble-rousing politician named François Christian Erasmus, combed the armed forces with "grievance commissions" to reward those who had ducked...