Word: micheles
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...create a U.S.-model presidency, but to put the French presidency above the chaos of party politics. Says De Gaulle: "The President must never be the leader of a parliamentary majority." - Also in the cards is a Cabinet shuffle. Major anticipated casualty is waspish little Premier Michel Debre. Cool to NATO and (until called upon to implement De Gaulle's policy) against Algerian independence. Debre has been the lightning rod of the Gaullist regime, attracting resentment that might otherwise have been showered on De Gaulle. Into the Foreign Ministry replacing Maurice Couve de Murville will probably go Algerian Affairs...
...deadly retaliatory blow by exploding a 22-lb. plastic bomb in an inner courtyard of the Foreign Affairs Ministry, killing a mail clerk and wounding ten bystanders. During a single day, S.A.O. bombs were detonated at the homes of a distinguished cross section of Paris intellectuals, including TV Commentator Michel Droit, Gaullist Senator Louis Vigier, and Hubert Beuve-Méry, owner of Le Monde. With scathing contempt, Beuve-Méry accused the S.A.O. of setting off its bombs at a time "when the men supposed to be the targets are not usually at home but when their wives...
...necktie. For evening wear, Grès grew more conservative: one closely draped jersey dress covered the midriff completely, except for two good-sized diamond-shaped picture windows just south of the rib cage. Jules Crahay of Nina Ricci finally closed the neckline of one dress at the navel. Michel Goma and other designers offered evening-gown backs bare down to the coccyx. Patou loaded down daytime costumes with shoulder bows, capelets, streaming stoles and back skirt panels. Dior's Marc Bohan, however, departed only slightly from the closed-Dior shape of the past. Although he lowered belts until...
...precariously narrow ledge. From far left to far right, De Gaulle is under attack by France's politicians. Members of his own government are suspected of opposing his Algerian solution, especially Premier Michel Debre, who on the record has favored a tougher line than De Gaulle in opposing the F.L.N. and supports a French Algeria. With the French people, De Gaulle's popularity may have somewhat diminished, but he still has a powerful hold on them. He and they are locked in a special political embrace: they need him because they know that no one else stands a chance...
...written by the so-called "anti-novelists" of France. Man is no longer viewed as an actor on the stage of life but as a microorganism, or atom, reacting to obscure laws of physics and biochemistry. Leaders of this movement are Nathalie Sarraute, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Marguerite Duras and Michel Butor, whose new book, Degrees, is perhaps the most complex anti-novel to date. For, by some mysterious aliterary law, the more schematic and mechanistic an author's view of life, the more complicated and device-ridden his style...