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...that France must polarize or perish. Campaigning in his bleak, mountainous home region of Cantal, he explained: "The choice is simple, dear friends. It must be made between totalitarian Communism and liberty and democracy." Meanwhile, all across France, Gaullist campaign workers sought to rekindle the revulsion that the average Frenchman felt toward the June violence by showing a specially prepared 30-minute film of the rioting on the Left Bank. In city after city, some 8,000 student volunteers, who call themselves "Youth for Progress," worked frantically for De Gaulle, painting Gaullist slogans on streets and fighting with Communist youngsters...
...VOLTS-GILBERT BÉCAUD (ABC, 8:30-9 p.m.).* Sizzling Frenchman Bécaud, who often composes his own songs, sings his recent splash hit, Sound and Sea, in this international variety show. Also featured: Singers João Gilberto (Brazil) and Lill Lindfors (Sweden...
...cover story on De Gaulle [May 31], you failed to adequately distinguish between the average Frenchman's acceptance of De Gaulle's policies (e.g., decolonization and national independence) and his corresponding rejection of De Gaulle's archaic governing methods (e.g., suppression of government criticism). Le Nez est fini because the French people desire an end to his particular liberté, égalité, sénilit...
...able to set tle down on the canape at night to watch le football matches and the pop-singer contests. More than half of all French workers own a car, and a vacation in Spain or even Greece is no longer the province of the well-to-do Frenchman...
Last night we reached Palma, Majorca, where the special attraction was a twelve-mile trip to the monastery at Valldemosa to eat a buffet dinner and hear a recital of Chopin's piano music by that handsome Frenchman Samson François. The monastery was cold and damp, but those clever people from the Renaissance brought along bundles of plaid blankets to cover everybody up. Poor Chopin. He lived in the monastery for two months with his, pardon me, mistress, George Sand, and they say that he nearly died of the chill. He could have used some of those...