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...issues thus were clearly drawn: youth v. age, temperance v. Gaullist hubris abroad, the needs of ordinary Frenchmen v. building the Bomb. As the campaign progressed, successive polls showed De Gaulle's once massive support tumbling. Alarmed, Gaullist strategists persuaded the general to use more of his television time. Forced into a defensive plea ill-suited to his imperial style, he came off poorly, looked pale and haggard beside his youthful competitors. Gaullist ministers whirled into a frenzy of activity in the closing days of the campaign, but it was too late. The televised image stuck. "Suddenly the father...
...final choice is now between De Gaulle and Mitterrand, whom Frenchmen call "le beau Francois" for his looks, "le Florentin" for his political suppleness. One of eight children of a Cognac railroad clerk, Mitterrand climbed to prominence through sheer brilliance and an inborn political knack for being all things to all people. Though his vest-pocket party, the left-of-center Democratic Socialist Union of the Resistance, has never amounted to much, his adaptability shoehorned him into no fewer than eleven revolving coalition Cabinets of the Fourth Republic. For at least two of his Cabinet stints, Mitterrand is given high...
...where 51 years of rent control have helped create a gargantuan housing shortage. Thus it is not surprising that the French have enthusiastically greeted an invasion by Long Island's William J. Levitt, the U.S.'s biggest homebuilder (fiscal 1965 sales: $60 million). More than 60,000 Frenchmen have poured out of Paris to gape at Levitt's recently opened American-style subdivision in suburban Le Mesnil-Saint-Denis...
Seldom had the leader of a free society treated his nation with such con tempt. Last week as Charles de Gaulle delivered himself of his long-awaited decision to run again for the presidency, few Frenchmen were surprised, but all France might well have felt insulted by his reasoning. "Should the public's frank and massive support call on me to remain in office," De Gaulle de- clared, "the future of the Republic will be resolutely assured. If not, no one doubts that it will immediately collapse, and that France will undergo - this time without possible recourse - a national...
...Algerian freedom, Tixier made his reputation defending S.A.O. terrorists whom the De Gaulle government brought to trial. Tixier spent all of August touring beaches and resorts, holding forth under a rented circus tent. By Tixier's accounting, it was a huge success. He talked to 125,000 Frenchmen and, he said, increased his potential share of the French vote from 18% to 25%. Most observers suspect he will be lucky to poll...