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Agriculture employs one Frenchman in five, but farms are usually small and uneconomic, run by older people (average age of farm owners: 55). Since the De Gaulle government untied the link between farm and industrial prices in 1958, farmers' prices have dropped 11% while the rest of the country has crested on an industrial boom. Last month the powerful farmers' organizations demanded a special session of the Assembly to take up the farm problem...
Pioneer & Prophet. As any skindiver will readily admit, his sport is almost the singlehanded creation of a lean (6 ft., 154 Ibs.). visionary Frenchman named Jacques-Yves Cousteau. He is, all in one. its pioneer, foremost promoter, prophet, and poet. As the developer of the Aqua-Lung, he set divers free to roam in the kingdom of the fish. With his book The Silent World (1953). he became diving's foremost philosopher. The prizewinning film made from the book opened the world's eyes to the magic world under the sea, sent both scientists and pleasure seekers hustling...
Records & Rapture. Cousteau maintains that he had no idea what he had started when he first stood on his finger and laughed aloud in his Aqua-Lung. Whole new fields are opening up for free divers, who, like Cousteau, soon tire of skewering fish as too easy (cracks one Frenchman: "It's like chasing elephants in a sports car"). The move is toward wreck-hounding, tracing underground springs through black and frigid waters, studying rock and reef, and taking underwater color movies. Equipped with Aqua-Lungs, divers are gradually taking over much of the work of the traditional helmeted...
...problem of fluttering at high speeds, which slows the skier. As Head walked the slopes seeking pointers on how to improve his product, he saw dramatic proof of the superiority of metal skis. For the first time in Olympic history a gold medal was won by a skier. Frenchman Jean Vuarnet, wearing metal skis, developed especially by a French firm. For Head this was proof that the metal ski will be as good for racing...
Solid evidence of Soviet missile progress made the issue of defense of concern to free men everywhere. U.S. defense was also involved as Frenchman faced Frenchman in the streets of Algiers (see FOREIGN NEWS) and Charles de Gaulle, with courage and surpassing leadership, faced the gravest crisis of his regime: the consequences of a weakened France could take the heart out of the Western alliance. Deeper in Africa, the strivings for independence, however prepared the newly free might be, had taken on a decisive undertone that could no longer be ignored. Tension in the Middle East, in the Caribbean, along...