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...order, particularly the gendarmerie," which has done most of the fighting against the S.A.O. De Gaulle cried angrily: "There's no more state. There's no more democracy. It can't go on like this!" He bitterly contrasted his popular support among the mass of Frenchmen with the "resistance" on the part of the army and the judiciary...
Previously de Gaulle has demanded strict obedience from the French Army in achieving an independent Algeria. According to his standard, Generals Jouhaud and Salan have committed treason in their efforts to keep Algeria French and therefore ought to be executed, regardless of their past records. Although many Frenchmen sympathize with the two officers as men driven to extremes by a sense of honor, the President's position has enjoyed almost universal support among his countrymen. In offering to trade a life for a life, deGaulle lowers himself to the level of the O.A.S. and tacitly admits that his former position...
Posters showing her legs were once banned from the Paris metro-too tantalizing to straphangers-so when unfading Marlene Dietrich, 57, turned up to show her classic calves for real, the Olympia music hall bulged with appreciative Frenchmen. With the old seductiveness, she caressed 18 songs a night, but drew the heartiest oo-la-las when, turned out in top hat, tails-and bare legs-she did a few coltish kicks. A grateful management held her over an extra week, and grateful admirers despoiled acres of rose gardens to pay her floral tribute...
...most notable has been wrought by a Paris-based firm improbably known as La Compagnie Françhise Thomson-Houston.* Within barely a decade, Thomson- Houston has not only risen from relative obscurity to the top rank of French industry, but also has succeeded in persuading Frenchmen that its name is as Gallic as De Gaulle. "Thomson sonne bien" (Thomson sounds good) is the company's slogan...
Last Year at Marienbad. A Gordian knot of cinema tied by two ingenious Frenchmen, Scenarist Alain Robbe-Grillet and Director Alain Resnais (Hiroshima, Mon Amour), which seems to make the pint-pot intellectuals feel like Alexanders...