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...Turkey's table. Worst of all, brash young Garry Davis, who calls himself a citizen of the world (TIME, Sept. 20, 27), and who has needled the Assembly since September, pulled a crowd of 20,000 to hear him speak in the cold Velodrome d'Hiver, while the Palais de Chaillot's comfortable seats were far from filled...
...Faubourg St. Antoine, the swank Champs Elysées barber. It was not a strike; it was a protest. Many of the indignant proprietors had gone to a mass meeting of the classes moyennes, the middle classes, at the vast and dingy Vélodrome d'Hiver. The protest was not local; throughout the nation 85% of small business establishments were closed...
Revolt, Almost. At the Vélodrome d'Hiver, 30,000 people wedged in and more tried to. Dapper doctors and smart young women in furs sat next to seedy old men in skullcaps. A young blonde who had a perfume shop near the Trocadero told a reporter that her hat had cost 28,000 francs ($235) at Lanvin's. She sat, vibrating with anger, until a speaker mentioned Schuman's Finance Minister René Mayer, whereupon she stood up, brandished her fist, and shrieked: "That man is an idiot! Let's have some action...
...Life," mused Grock, the famed Swiss clown, "is lousy." After 67 years of it, the greatest grimacier of them all was still in harness (see cut) at Paris' Cirque d'Hiver. "Most of the old clowns have died," he grumbled, "and no new ones have come up because this generation is no good.. . . We are no longer a civilized people but cannibals. . . . People are eating each other up, everything has gone to hell...
...haircuts, shampoos and permanents as "luxuries," ordered the tax on them raised from the present 25% to 50% on Oct. 1. Last week, in protest, 10,000 coiffeurs abstained from work for 24 hours. Shop owners turned the air blue at a mass meeting in the Cirque d'Hiver. The coiffeurs feared diminishing tips, the owners feared vanishing profits...