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Atomized Industry. One problem is that, after they've seen Paris, too many Frenchmen want to stay down on the farms. France has so many farmers that it is the ofily big Western European country that can feed itself-but its industries are underpopulated. Only 16% of its people hold industrial jobs, compared with 22% in Britain and 23% in Germany. Because farmers are low taxpayers, industry has to carry too heavy a share of the tax load, and this year the rates on profits, after dividends, were boosted from 34% to 50%. As a result, French industrial companies...
Yellow Men. Much of their comedy is sharply contemporary, and carries a sting. A reference to "the 13 Frenchmen who actually fought in the last war" is followed by a summation of Lyndon Johnson in his Viet Nam visit: "Shortly after he arrived, he left." An African head of state is asked by an English interviewer about his country's firm resistance to Red Chinese infiltration. "If God had meant there to be yellow men," the chief explains, "he would have made them like you and me." Hendra and Ullett, both 25, arrived at their joint lunacy three years...
...career skyrocketed, the specter of Piaf gradually became a restricting influence. Mireille wanted to develop her own style. Actually, though the similarities in intonation are unmistakable, Mireille's budding voice has little of the bittersweet pathos and built-in sob that endeared Piaf to generations of Frenchmen. When Maurice Chevalier heard 19-year-old Mireille sing a few months ago, he counseled: "You are young, pretty, and your success has made you happy. You should not sing unhappy, tortured songs. Sing on the sunny side of the street." And so she has, trading in her black dress for bright...
...dock were five Frenchmen-a journalist, two policemen and two secret agents-and one small-time Moroccan police operative. All were charged with either participation or complicity in the kidnaping. The two most wanted men were out of reach of French law. They were Morocco's Interior Minister Brigadier General Mohamed Oufkir and his deputy for secret-police matters, Ahmed Dlimi. Witnesses named them as the Moroccans who had met Ben Barka at the villa. King Hassan flatly refused to hand them over for trial. In fact, he had been working feverishly behind the scenes to block the proceedings...
...history's political unfortunates. Through the 1930s, he and other moderate conservatives warned in vain about the growing Nazi threat; when he finally came to power in the spring of 1940, it was too late for anything except to preside over the fall of France -which is how Frenchmen remember him, though they might also note that he started Charles de Gaulle on his way with an appointment in 1940 as Under Secretary of State for Defense...