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Tour de Chant (Michel Louvain; Coral). A French-Canadian singer with a voice full of sighs, swoops and quavers his way through a pleasantly relaxed nightclub turn. Most of the songs will be new to U.S. listeners, but every so often Louvain slips in an oldie, e.g., C'est le Print emps (It Might as Well Be Spring] or Viens Plus Pres (Mama, Teach Me to Dance...
Another paratroop colonel calmly admitted that the police had begged his assistance, but he did nothing. A third, Colonel Henri Dufour, testified he had also told General Challe that he would not fire on the insurrectionists. When French Premier Michel Debre hurried to Algiers, Dufour advised him not to count on the army because "this is a political problem; it needs a political solution...
...were rich, Republican, Catholic, socially impeccable, and in their own less boisterous fashion, fully as overwhelming as the Kennedys of Massachusetts. No fewer than 24 of Jackie's ancestors came over from France to fight in the American Revolution. All went back to France with Lafayette, but young Michel Bouvier, inspired by his cousin's tales of the new frontier, came to Philadelphia in 1814 and became a prosperous importer. The Bouviers have been prominent on the American side of the Atlantic ever since. Jackie's grandfather, John Vernou Bouvier Jr., was a spellbinding trial lawyer...
...enabled them to determine the size of the family.* But France is still a patriarchal society based on the idea that women do not have the right to make this decision. "The man we see waging a crusade against birth control," writes Research Scientist Andrée Vielle-Michel, "is a 19th century man, who cannot imagine a world that is not dominated by the male." What France needs, she says, is a type of 20th century man, who will join woman in building a democratic society in which she lives as comfortably as he does...
...wing followers of Jacques Soustelle and the army leadership found themselves on the same side: all said they would vote no. Voting yes were the socialists and the conservatives, the faithful Gaullist U.N.R. and Roman Catholic intellectuals. The government poured $2,000,000 into the campaign, but when Premier Michel Debre spoke at a public meeting, he was mobbed by angry supporters of both yes and no. Thereafter, he spoke to audiences composed mostly of policemen...