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Landru. The New Wave, which surf-boarded French Moviemaker Claude Chabrol to fame in Le Beau Serge and Les Cousins, is receding, and the beach is littered with reels of cinematic flotsam. A fair sample is this Chabrol film based on the macabre amours of Henri Desire Lan dru, a French antique dealer, who whiled away World War I by having affairs with 283 women, only 273 of whom survived...
Defying Morocco, Mauritania's Sorbonne-educated Premier Moktar Ould Daddah, 38, has argued all along that there is no historical basis for union, and that the two countries have neither lan guage nor ethnic origins in common. One by one, the former French colonies that backed Morocco's claims have all dropped out of the battle. Algeria's militant Ahmed Ben Bella allowed recently that Mauritania's nationhood is a "reality." Last week even neighboring Mali, which also claimed part of Mauritania and permitted pro-Moroccan guerrillas to raid the desert nation a year ago, finally...
...clever government agent wanted a gimmick to divert attention from Red China's woeful economic failures, he could scarcely have dreamed up a better one. Mao's wife is a slender, handsome woman of about 45 who once acted in Chinese movies under the name Lan Pin, now calls herself Chiang Ching. She married him in 1939 after he divorced No. 3. Liu's wife, Wang Kuang-mei, is also his fourth. The first was killed during China's civil war, the other two were divorced. Some 25 years his junior (Liu is in his early...
...Little River. Mistakes piled up on both sides, The French gallantly launched Plan 17 and were slaughtered; élan was no match for heavy artillery. When Moltke hesitated despite this victory, a general named Alexander von Kluck took matters into his own hands on the right wing, although his troops were exhausted. "They look like living scarecrows," noted one of Kluck's officers in his diary. "They drink to excess, but this drunkenness keeps them going. If we used too much severity the army would not march." Kluck decided to disregard Moltke's order to hold back...
Died. Mei Lan-fang, 67, China's "Great King of Actors," whose willowy grace and flawless falsetto made him the foremost female impersonator in the all-male Chinese classical drama, won him worldwide applause-his 1930 U.S. tour brought him honorary degrees from two U.S. colleges-and earned him as much as $4,000 per half-hour; of a heart attack; in Peking. He defiantly grew a mustache to avoid entertaining China's Japanese conquerors during World War II, but traveled the world for the Communists, was visited during his fatal illness by another onetime tan (male actress...