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Last week word leaked from the Warren Commission that its report would spike each of the overseas theses and endorse with few changes the FBI's original version that Oswald killed alone. However, this is hardly likely to end the myth-making in Europe. Asked a suspicious Frenchman last week: "Will the commission have the right to publish its real conclusions...
...most licentious language, however, came from Rabelais. In translation, the Frenchman used no less than 66 verbs to describe what Diogenes did to his tub while his fellow Corinthians were preparing to defend their city against Phillip of Macedon. Not only did Diogenes frisk it, jumble it, shuffle it, and huddle it, but he towled it, bewrayed it and unbunged it as well. All this action (set to music by Elliot Carter) was described with great enthusiasm by a four-part men's chorus while the 'Cliffies sat on the sidelines. In obedience to the score, the men chanted much...
...century Europe offered a great many other forms of revolution to shop among. There were Saint-Simon, Fourier, and the other Utopian socialists, intellectual descendants of a small wing of the French Revolutionary Jacobins. There were the secret societies organized by the followers of Louis Auguste Blanqui, an erratic Frenchman who was the first to advocate dictatorship of the proletariat; the British
...condemned Hitler's campaign to exterminate the Jews? Last week in Rome, Eugène Cardinal Tisserant, Dean of the College of Cardinals, more or less agreed with those Catholics who argue that a statement by Pius would not have stopped the genocide. At the same time, the Frenchman lent support to critics who insist that the Pope, as a moral authority, should have spoken...
...common varieties of pasta have risen from 90 a Ib. to 130. In Paris, where the price of steak is $1.22 a Ib. (for biftek, the lean cuts from the round, rump or tip), a cheap restaurant lunch runs to $1.50, and $4 lunches are common. The well-pressed Frenchman has to pay $70 to $100 for a suit (or $200 if it is custom made) and $2 to have it dry cleaned, about $8 for a shirt to go with it. Movies on the Champs-Elysees cost $2, and a three-room apartment in a new Parisian building...