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...Italian, Pole, and Frenchman discussed European culture at the International Seminar last Wednesday evening. The men comprising the panel were: Lucio Pozzi, a professional Italian artist; Lucjan Kydrynski, Editor for Cultural Affairs of the Polish "Przekroj Weekly;" and Louis Paul Marcorelles, Assistant Editor of "Cahiersedu Cinema...
Under normal circumstances, only necessity would draw any Frenchman to Maubeuge (pop. 30,000), a cheerless, Hoboken-like manufacturing center up near the Belgian border, where the moon-or, for that matter, the sun-shines rarely on the River Sambre. But all summer long the roads to Maubeuge have been jammed with moonstruck vacationers, honeymooners and touring rubbernecks, all lured there by what promises to become Europe's next popular hit-a tango called Un Clair de Lune à Maubeuge (Moonlight at Maubeuge...
...French world power and European an unification was the topic of last Thursday's Brattle Street Forum, as the panel made predictions as to the future of French politics and the relations of France and Germany. Moderated by Samuel Beer, professor of government at Harvard, the panel included a Frenchman, Paul Fabra of Le Monde; a German Gunter Gaus, editor of Sud Deutsche Zettung: as well as Nicholas Wahl, assistant professor of government, Harvard; and Roy Macridis, professor of political science, Washington University...
Some 650 ft. below the hard clay surface of Nevada's Frenchman Flat, technicians carefully installed the device in a 6-ft.-high and 75-ft.-long chamber lined with plywood and floored with fine gravel. For a while a contrary wind sweeping across the area threatened to postpone the shot. Then the wind faded and the device was detonated. Standing on a mountain-top 57 miles away, observers could not hear the explosion. But they saw its effect perfectly: a great mass composed of thousands of tons of granite boulders, sand, clay, yucca trees, sagebrush, tumbleweed, and even...
...funniest thing to wake up on a Saturday morning and hear these wee little voices coming from the basement singing Pretty Baby." The idea for the player piano seems to have originated with a Frenchman named Fourneaux who patented a player operating on pneumatic principles...