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Socialist Premier Guy Mollet is a Frenchman who seems so shy and timid that in World War II the Gestapo once let him go, after arresting him as a Resistance leader, because they could not believe he had the requisite tough qualities. Last week this deceptively mild ex-high-school teacher of English stirred up an international commotion by challenging the foundations of Western policy and criticizing France's allies (particularly the U.S.) in terms more caustic than any other French Premier has used since the days of Charles de Gaulle...
...train trip to Nice, followed the trail through five countries before catching up with her in Zurich. After a New York matron complained that her daughter had disappeared in Europe, the company finally tracked the girl down in Paris, where she had set up light housekeeping with a Frenchman. One Christmas in London, a middle-aged American visitor hinted that she was lonely and a company representative insisted on taking her home to share Christmas dinner with his family. Since many U.S. tourists report lost or stolen valuables ot American express rather than police, company agents have to be part...
...Kinsey litmus would probably show that the average Frenchman is no naughtier than most people, but French novelists have made his little delinquencies into one of the most readable of literary exports. To be sure, there are the existentialist writers who manage to turn sex into a measure of personal calamity and there are the Mauriacs who turn it into a measure of sin. But for the moment, U.S. read ers can settle back in relief with two new French novels that restore the classic Gallic atmosphere to the oldest game in the world. In both The Green Mare...
...unrest in North Africa (see FOREIGN NEWS), was caught out after curfew one night near Algiers. Stopped by Senegalese troops with fixed bayonets, McHale was prodded off to the commissariat by a young French machine gunner with an itchy finger. When the correspondent showed his press pass, the nervous Frenchman snapped:"That doesn't mean a thing-this is war!" At the commissariat, luckily, cooler heads prevailed: McHale was released after a 15-minute grilling...
...threequarter line will include Jim Lopez, who played both football and rugby for Yale last year, with Frenchman Olivier Brunet, and wingback Ron Eikenberry on the wings. Pete Palmer is replacing Joslin at center...