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Jonathan F. Beecher '58-4 has been awarded "a month in Paris" as the guest of a Frenchwoman, who is mother of two alumni. She had offered to have an undergraduate of the College's choice spend one month in her home "as a member of the family." A committee which chose Beecher is composed of a representative of the Department of Romance Languages and one from the Dean's Office...
...Louis-le-Grand, which traditionally gets the cream of Sorbonne graduates for its faculty. He fought with the French as an infantryman in World War II, joined the Resistance, became a literary lion in Paris after publication of his poems, Chantes d'Ombre. His second wife is a Frenchwoman. As one of the architects of the new Mali Federation which keeps its links to Paris, his hope for the future is for a commonwealth " à la française" in a time when Europe will once again be the world's "premier spiritual power...
...natty and witty little former parish priest who was unfrocked for marrying a Frenchwoman, Boganda wants a federation, not only of French Equatorial territory, but also of Belgian and Portuguese colonies in the area. They are ambitious men, these new Premiers. But by their decision to stay in the French community, eleven of the twelve new states in French Africa (Guinea is the exception) have agreed to let France continue to control their foreign policy, defense and finance...
...glimmered palely in the Cairo night, and its veranda lights were reflected in the Nile. In a fifth-floor suite three-year-old Prince Nawaf of Saudi Arabia lay fast asleep. In the bedroom of a similar suite three floors below dozed the Begum Aga Khan, 52, a handsome Frenchwoman who was "Miss France of 1932" and is the widow of the wealthy Aga Khan, who lies buried 500 miles upriver at Aswan...
...resists the attempts of his superior officer (Maximilian Schell) to make him "a creative soldier"; resists the military dictum that "when you become a soldier you contract for killing in all its forms"; resists the friend who tells him that despite all the corpses "nothing really changes"; resists the Frenchwoman (Liliane Montevecchi) who pleads with him to desert because "there never was anything for you to fight for"; resists until one day, in flight before the American advance, he begs for food at a concentration camp, and sees at last that, in effect if not in intention...