Word: jeane
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EARLY THUNDER, by Jean Fritz (Coward-McCann; $4.50). A historical novel set in Salem, Mass., in 1775, about Daniel West, a 14-year-old torn between the Tory loyalties of his family and his own awakening devotion to independence...
...Frenchmen do not believe that, and the reason for their disbelief is that someone has indeed made book of De Gaulle's sayings over the years. The book is La Tragedie du General, now the No. 1 bestseller in France, and its author is Paris-Match Political Editor Jean-Raymond Tournoux, who conducted more than 1,000 interviews with several hundred people who had talked with De Gaulle over a period of 20 years. In a recent Paris-Match article, Tournoux quoted De Gaulle as saying: "England-I want her in the nude," meaning shorn of all economic...
...larger stake in the aprés-De Gaulle era than Georges Jean Raymond Pompidou, 56, the onetime professor of literature and investment banker whom De Gaulle thrust untutored into French politics as his premier in 1962. The only man in his Cabinet that the general deigns to call by his first name (everyone else, both friend and foe, refers to the premier as "Pompon"), the bushy-browed Pompidou has long been De Gaulle's unspoken choice to succeed him. De Gaulle would never, of course, detract from his own image as France's absolute ruler by openly...
Poetry & Rhythm. Hollywood was once described as the only asylum run by its inmates. It was the town where, as George Jean Nathan said, "ten million dollars' worth of machinery functions elaborately to put skin on baloney." There is still plenty of machinery out there putting skin on baloney. But the most important fact about the screen in 1967 is that Hollywood has at long last become part of what the French film journal Cahiers du Cinema calls" the furious springtime of world cin ema," and is producing a new kind of movie...
University officials, in consultation with Mather's architect, Jean-Paul Carlhian, and the Turner Construction Company, the firm submitting the lowest original bid, worked out a series of technical modifications worth a half-million dollars in construction savings. On November 7, the University agreed to contract with Turner, and excavation began shortly after. Occupancy, Wiggins said, is still scheduled for September...