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International Showtime (NBC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Don Ameche plays host at "Christmas at the Paris Circus," taped at the Cirque d'Hiver in Paris...
...police leaves were canceled, and for the first time since the Communist riots of 1947, the army was called out to guard "places of strategic importance." In metropolitan Paris the police in one day rounded up 3,000 Algerians and commandeered the Vélodrome d'Hiver, the Madison Square Garden of Paris, as a detention camp...
Bearded Bear Hug. Billy said he would be content to draw 3,000 listeners in fun-loving, nominally Roman Catholic Paris. At his first public meeting, some 9,000 people flocked into the huge Vélodrome d'Hiver (capacity: 20,000) to hear him. Standing beneath a giant Scoreboard, Billy exhorted them, in short, hard-hitting sentences, to "repent, receive Jesus Christ through faith, and surrender and commit everything to Jesus Christ." After each sentence, he waited while U.S.-educated French Baptist Minister Jacques Blocher translated his words into French at the same speed and with the same...
Justice in Time. Paris' famed Cirque d'Hiver was persuaded to lend its ring and five lions-Pasha, Prince, Romeo, Pigalle and Hamed-for the legal demonstration. "Never turn your back on Prince," admonished Circus Manager Alexandre Bouglione as Steinmann prepared to enter the cage. A breathless girl in black rushed up to wish the trainer bonne chance. "This," shouted the lawyer for the defense, "is all irrelevant," but nobody paid any attention. A court bailiff pulled a green dossier from his overcoat pocket and settled down to take notes...
...Davis movement was receiving letters at the rate of 400 a day. From Savoy, in the southeast, a hysterical woman wrote: "I think you must be Christ returned." A Courbevoie worker wrote: "This is our last hope." Recently Garry Davis filled the Salle Pleyel and the Velodrome d'Hiver, two big auditoriums in Paris, with cheering thousands-crowds such as only Charles de Gaulle, and possibly Communist Boss Maurice Thorez, could attract. His committee of support includes Albert Einstein, who cabled that "only the unbendable will of the people can free the forces which are necessary for such...