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...soldier's commanding officer. Simple pregnancy is not enough. "Trouble is," says one high Justice Ministry official, "many a woman comes to us brandishing just a letter from her dead fiancé, promising to marry her. That won't do it, legally. Think of all the Frenchmen who write such promises to three or four mistresses...
Lackluster Speaker? Under Charles de Gaulle's stern and authoritarian rule, many Frenchmen have felt politically stifled. True, he has not proved to be the harsh dictator many critics predicted five years ago. But Frenchmen ache for a return to the clashing opinions of democratic rule-without the factional excesses of the past. Defferre, whom some think a lackluster speaker with little chance of success, represents the wistful inner hope for an end to political monologue and the beginning of dialogue in French politics...
...curious cosmopolite could learn a lot from last week's ninth Winter Olympics at Innsbruck, Austria. American women have too many teeth, for instance. Russian women have too many muscles. American men are lousy street fighters. Russians ski uphill better than down. Austrians and Frenchmen ski downhill better than anyone. And, above all, for goodness' sake never argue with an Austrian...
...angry debate about the pact, and Bonn's Minister for Special Tasks Heinrich Krone journeyed to Paris for a somewhat perfunctory observation of the date. De Gaulle's Asian adventure dismayed the overwhelming majority of South Viet Nam's 7,000 strongly anti-Communist overseas Frenchmen, who called it "une folie de grandeur." Even France's former colonies in Africa, which usually give Paris solid diplomatic backing, were split. Said Madagascar's President Philibert Tsiranana, echoing the opinion of about eight (out of 14) French-oriented African states: "For once, I will not follow General...
...France. But Greeks who have grown up with the memory of Aphrodite can only gape at the American goddesses, silken and seminude, in a million advertisements. Indians who have seen the temple sculptures of Konarak can only marvel at some of the illustrated matter sold in American drugstores; and Frenchmen who consider themselves the world's arbiters on the subject, can only smile at the urgency attached to it by Americans. The U.S. seems to be undergoing a revolution of mores and an erosion of morals that is turning it into what Reich called a "sex-affirming culture...