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Ceremonially blowing smoke to the four winds, Mayan priests puffed their pipes to please the gods; the Sioux passed around the calumet to seal the peace; 16th century Frenchman Jean Nicot (whose name is immortalized in the word nicotine) promoted pipe smoking as a sure cure for ulcers; and 19th century authors rhapsodized like Bulwer-Lytton: "A pipe, it is a great soother, a pleasant comforter. Blue devils fly before its honest breath. It ripens the brain, it opens the heart, and the man who smokes thinks like a Samaritan...
Probably no Frenchman has worked harder for Christian unity than Pastor Marc Boegner, 81, head of the Protestant Federation of France until he retired in 1961. Last week Dr. Boegner was elected to the French Academy, narrowly edging Roman Catholic Historian Marquis Albert de Luppé in the voting. The decisive factor in the election was the last-minute intervention of a Catholic acquaintance. Eugėne Cardinal Tisserant, who came to Paris from the Vatican Council, ardently championed the cause of the first Protestant minister to win membership in the Academy's history. Said Tisserant to Boegner: "This...
...Fifth Republic as a consequence of recent events; to be replaced by the more familiar, if less exalted, language of partisan politics. De Gaulle's "French nation," united behind its leader and scorning the divisive and dilatory representative mechanism, has disappeared, to be replaced by the more familiar atomistic Frenchman, who does not prize unity above all things, nor value efficiency most highly. The vote in Sunday's referendum was, in fact, a vote against government by referendum...
...growing unity of the nations around the North Atlantic must eventually include their schools. It is commonplace for a Frenchman to work making tires in Birmingham; the irony is that if his children go to school in Britain, they ruin their chances of entering French universities. Needed: commonly held standards that will permit secondary schools in any part of Europe to feed the universities of any other part. This fall, in a grand old castle in Wales, a school opened to work toward this goal by providing standards...
...French. On another occasion, De Gaulle despaired aloud: "How can you govern a country with 246 varieties of cheese?" The French, he complains, "think only about stuffing themselves and living better," adding: "This is hardly a national purpose." On the other hand, he shrugs: "Every Frenchman wants to have one or two special privileges. That's his way of showing his passion for equality...