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...prestige of France in [the American] continent." In 1938 the government announced its intention to let the penal colony "disappear by extinction." Red tape, lassitude and the demands of World War II slowed down the process, but last February the government decided to bring home the last convicts and libérés. Last week Théodore Roussel, a freed man who had spent more than 50 of his 76 years in French Guiana for a long-forgotten robbery, gazed blankly at the soft landscape of his native land. "I can't blame anyone but myself...
Freedom to Starve. Most were not so lucky. French law provided that anyone serving under eight years had to stay in Guiana as a libéré, or freed prisoner, for another period equal at least to that of his sentence; anyone sentenced for more than eight years had to remain in the colony for life. About all that differentiated the libérés from the prisoners was the fact that the freed men had to scratch and beg for their living, while the prisoners at least got fed. Money or influence might buy a man special...
...experts, guest contestants, talent acts, a big cash prize ($1,000), dancing cigarette packages (Old Golds) and a studio crowd slavishly applauding everything in sight, including the commercials. In repartee with the amateur panelists (a device Groucho Marx has used with immense success) Allen's gift for ad lib is supposed to shine forth. Shine it did on the first show, but all too briefly in the half-hour clutter of people and performance. The acts-a girl singer, a ballroom dance team and a pair of "electronic harmonica" players-were adequate but undistinguished, raising the question whether another...
...pulpit, Billy rests two black leather books. One is a notebook containing a typed outline of tonight's sermon, the other a Bible. The outline Billy never mentions but fleetingly consults; though each new sermon is rehearsed before a mirror, Graham's delivery is always convincingly ad lib. The Bible Billy mentions constantly: "The Bible says . . . Now don't get mad at me. Billy Graham didn't say it. The Bible says it." (The word "Bible" rolls up from Billy's diaphragm and out over the audience like a thunderclap...
They could face the Kremlin smears, the Lib'ral lies...