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Pompidou, however, has some advantages in his quest for the presidency. One is that his potential opposition is doing poorly at the moment. Couve de Murville is efficient but dull; he calls himself a "provisional Prime Minister" in jest, but Frenchmen have begun to agree. Debre is losing favor with De Gaulle because he is lukewarm toward the President's plans for decentralizing government. Education Minister Edgar Faure has lost stature as a result of continuing student unrest; last week rioters from the Lycee Saint Louis in Paris temporarily seized the Sorbonne, and at the new University of Vincennes...
...lunker eal plum in the senter of the ferst Congrigasionale Chirch picknic with the wimmen timing back summersets an having spells. wonce in a wile tho, it seams funny, four xample: "July 27, 186-rany and thunderry. i always thought a girl with red hair and frekles wood taist jest like dandylions when you bite them, i meen of course bite the dandylions. i meen when you kiss the girl, i dont know, some day i am going to find...
...would invent new modulations if such a thing were possible." The story goes that when Gioachino Rossini was shown Berlioz' score for the Symphonic Fantastique, he examined it for five minutes and said, "Thank goodness, this isn't music!" Recently Pierre Boulez complained, only half in jest, that Berlioz "has only got two chords...
...Mitchell stuck with the party through the hysteria of the McCarthy years. "Sometimes it was a little hard finding a job," she said, half in jest, half in anger, "and the FBI followed us around all the time. We couldn't do party work in the open." She had to testify before the House Un-American Affairs Committee, and many of her close friends went to jail...
...problems of New York can be compared only to the ten plagues of Egypt, as Lindsay once claimed in jest, the autumn of 1968 is clearly the time of all ten. There are more than a few who blame Lindsay himself for spreading the plague. Said Dominick Peluso, executive assistant to Frank O'Connor, Democratic City Council president and an archfoe of the Republican Mayor: "Lindsay has taken New York from a city in crisis to a city in chaos." The summary is typical, though hardly just; Lindsay's record is one of remarkable success and serious shortcomings...