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...French navy band thumped out ruffles and flourishes, the Foreign Legion detachment snapped to the garde-à-vous, and a thin line of civilians and dignitaries cheered and waved the Tricolor. But then things came apart. The crowds that lined Avenue 13 on De Gaulle's motorcade route were screaming for freedom, carrying banners demanding "Independence totale," "Vive la liberte," and in English, "French, go home." When the motorcade had passed, the demonstrators started throwing rocks at the legionnaires, rioted for four hours before they got tired and went home. Next day the riots erupted anew, bringing hundreds...
...this the legion of drunken misfits who roam the highways, maintaining their licenses through "friends" at the Registry of Motor Vehicles, and sure enough, these cats start killing off a lot of kids who have never even terrorized a small Midwestern town. So they get all shook when they get hit with a big suit. Their first reaction? Outlaw motorcycles...
...Boston with 15-ft. figures of the apostles and prophets. Such commissions, plus his close interest in the Pre-Raphaelites, led him to stained glass. He concocted his own kind of opalescent glass, more in the manner of Tiffany than of Chartres. Its milky jewel quality earned him a Legion of Honor from the French and the chance to design windows for the Harvard Chapel in London's Southwark Cathedral...
Stolber himself makes no bones about being an upstaging ham, and sometimes he's funny at it too. But to really like him you've got to like the Art Carney type of comic (on television they're legion). Needless to say, not everybody will. Skolnik is somewhat more restrained, and when he has anything to do he does it wonderfully...
...William V. Hogan (D-Everett), a former state commander of the American Legion, led the debate against Harrington's attempt to resurrect the bill. Last night he said, "I see nothing with the oath. We take it in government. What's wrong with a teacher, entrusted with youth, taking...