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...Born. To Princess Margrethe, 28, heiress to the Danish throne, and Prince Henrik, 33, the French-born former Count Henri de Monpezat: their first child, a son; in Copenhagen...
Married. Regis Debray, 27, French-born Marxist, currently serving a 30-year sentence in a Bolivian prison (see THE WORLD...
...operatic style is more closely wedded to its native language than the small but heady French repertory. Its best composers, from Rameau to Poulenc, created music that wraps itself tightly around every inflection of the spoken word. Without French-born singers who can respond instinctively to the language embedded in the music, French opera is likely to languish-which is just what has been happening at New York's Metropolitan...
Outmanned 3 to 1 and heavily outgunned, the 13,000-man French force trapped in the small North Vietnamese valley of Dienbienphu was slowly being decimated by the Viet Minh. The Communists, entrenched in the surrounding hills, kept up such a deadly hail of flak that resupply flights to the defenders were down to a dribble. In those bleak days of April 1954, only one thing could have saved the besieged garrison: American help. That help was denied-and, according to French-born Historian Bernard B. Fall, it was largely because of objections by then Senate Minority Leader Lyndon...
...million profit on $14 million worth of sales last year) from his 19th century manor house near Oxford, which serves as the office for 400 of his 2,500 staffers. Handsome if beefy (6 ft., 230 lbs.), Maxwell lives in "one small corner" of Headington Hill Hall with his French-born wife and eight children, devotes mornings to his business, afternoons and evenings to Parliament, to which he was elected as a Labor M.P. two years ago. Characteris tically, Maxwell was the first member to make his maiden speech. "I was glad he waited until the Queen finished," sniffed...