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...four responsibilities-the Sahara, atomic energy ("but not the bomb"), overseas territories and overseas departments-but he prefers to be known by his unofficial title, Minister of the Sahara. A solidly built, wavy-haired man with blandly skeptical eyes half-hidden behind owlish glasses, Soustelle calls himself "a typical Frenchman," and in some respects looks the part. But at various times in his meteoric career this tough, confident and shrewd man has been described as "the Molotov of Gaullism," "Jacques the Wrecker," "the Big Alley Cat," "a born secret policeman," and "the most dangerous man in France." However unfair some...
...nothing to declare but a hollow in the heart. He no sooner suggests that "a man has to be empty before he can be used" than he has a chance encounter with a decadent French count (Alec Guinness) whom he strikingly resembles. The professor is tricked into assuming the Frenchman's identity, along with a down-at-the-plumbing Loire chateau crammed with impressive horrors: the count's plaintive wife (Irene Worth), who fears for her life because of a portentous clause in her marriage contract; his child-mystic daughter (Annabel Bartlett), who paints pictures of "secret police...
...contestants participated in the fun and frolic. A few tried it in the 1909 way. Frenchman Jean Salis, 63, wobbled across the Channel in his 484-lb. replica of Bleriot's monoplane ("It was like sitting on a fluttering leaf"), eventually made it from Arc to Arch in 12 hr. 17 min. 22 sec. Clutching a pet tortoise named Fangio, Health Faddist Dr. Barbara Moore Pataleewa, 55, set out from Marble Arch on foot, switched to a motorcycle, hopped a plane from Croydon to Le Touquet, on the English Channel, then ran most of the 135 miles to Paris...
...more efficient. As a shipment of 4,500 tons of South American cotton arrived at a Chinese port recently, U.S.-trained Chinese inspectors swarmed over it, carefully grading each" bale. The Chinese are tough and unbending in trade negotiations, often cancel contracts for no obvious reason. Said a Frenchman who packed his bags and returned home from Red China without a franc's worth of trade: "The atmosphere is decidedly bad for doing business...
...coinage completely, and for a time the old banknotes will simply be issued overprinted in red with their new values, until new coins (including a silver 5-franc piece the size and approximate value of a silver dollar) can be turned out. But once again a thrifty Frenchman...