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...will apparently not be the last move against France's dwindling stake in Algeria. In a nationwide speech, Ben Bella announced that all additional French-owned property would be nationalized. His regime has already handed over to peasants some hundreds of thousands of acres expropriated from Frenchmen who have left the country, and it is spending $40 million in French aid to compensate them. But Ben Bella's new statement appeared to renege on earlier official assurances that small French farmers who stayed would not be bothered...
...previous volumes, Durant scants parts of his story to speak at leisurely length of the poets, philosophers, and men of science he admires. He finds little space to discuss the great outward thrust that sent 17th century Englishmen, Frenchmen and Dutchmen around the globe. And although he writes of the statesmen and military leaders who helped shape the age-Cromwell, Marlborough, Peter the Great, Frederick William of Brandenburg-his sympathies lie with that other breed of 17th century men who made "all the motions of matter seem to fall into an order of law and the immensity of the universe...
...unusual move, De Gaulle summoned his Cabinet during the vacation month of August, and sourly noted that without economic and financial stability France could not have the glorious "policy consistent with her interests." Premier Georges Pompidou, an ex-banker, candidly said that all Frenchmen were jiggling tax returns a bit in their own favor, lamented that "while an American always wants to demonstrate that he earns more than his neighbor, the Frenchman always wants to show you he earns less...
...Brussels over the headquarters of the Common Market. The tribute was in homage to that grand old Eurocrat, Robert Schuman. His death last week at 77 remined the world that the new Europe which Charles de Gaulle so grandly purports to head owes much of its impetus to other Frenchmen with broader horizons...
...hand will be a team of nine Americans, eight Englishmen, 50 Frenchmen and one Spaniard. Some will do the acting; others will handle the cameras as they sweep across the endless strips of white sand and incredibly blue bays. But the producer of Harry's Girls, Bill Friedberg, is less interested in the terrain than in the kind of girls he wants for Harry - the mostly bikinied, unemployed actresses and models who are found in abundance on the beaches of Cannes, Juan-les-Pins and Monte Carlo. They should make most viewers forget about Harry...