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...classrooms and bistros of the Latin Quarter swarmed the students of Paris. If the people did not know France's overwhelming need, the students did-unity behind a towering political figure. If the people did not know the towering figure, the students did-high-domed Ferdinand Lop, teacher, editor, poet, political scientist and perennial Latin Quarter candidate for president...
Shouting, "Tout pour le front lopulaire -everything for the lopular front!" 10,000 exuberant conspirators converged on the square before their favorite Tav-erne du Pantheon, known as the Lopo-drome. Police barred their way. Undaunted, singing their battle hymn, "Lop, lop, lop lop lop, lop lop lop. . . ." (to the tune of Stars & Stripes Forever), they marched into the nearby Salle des Societes Savantes...
...Maitre Lop, serious and simple in his white celluloid collar, black shoestring tie and tortoise-shell glasses, greeted them from the stage. He wore his usual huge black Homburg on the head his followers say is shaped "like a flatiron upside down, recalling the glory of the Victory of Samothrace." Beside him were his ministers: one in charge of Folklore and Sex, another with the portfolio of Justice, Sports and Leisure, another of Tobacco and Health. The two most important were the Minister of the Fight Against the Opposition, and the Minister of the General Situation. They were "Lopologists...
...Lop au pouvoir!" A cowbell clanged, bringing the raucous hall to order. Le Maitre spoke: "La politique," he cried, "is a woman one courts and loves." The crowd whistled. Lop continued: "The government is impotent. Now we want realities." The crowd chanted: "Lop au pouvoir-Lop to power...
...still four years short of retirement age, wants the COMINCH job. The Fifth Fleet's quiet, hard-working Admiral Raymond Ames Spruance, 59, is also a leading candidate. Navy "radicals" (i.e., proponents of a break from the Navy's tradition of ancient admirals) would like to lop off the top 10% of the service's greening brass, lower the retirement age, put in a young admiral as boss. Their favorite, No. 175 on the list of admirals: lean, able Arthur W. Radford, 49, who set up naval aviation's excellent wartime training program, later bossed...