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Bourgés-Maunoury had first to win approval of his own deeply divided Radical Socialist Party, among whom are such antagonists as Pierre Mendes-France and such influential though relatively unknown anti-Europeans as diminutive Newspaper Owner Jean Baylet, whose Dépéche du Midi circulates its narrow message throughout France's poorer South. Radicals questioned Bourges sharply about his plans, finally voted 44 to 10 that he take his first step. Muttered a Radical Deputy: "That doesn't mean we've approved him yet as Premier...
Haydn's Symphony in C Minor (Le Midi) began the program. This work, one of the less-often heard of Haydn's symphonies, has an unusual musical structure--one of the movements is marked "recitative," and consists of a dialogue between solo violin and orchestra. There is also an extended duet for solo violin and 'cello, during which the other instruments remain silent. Concertmaster Daniel Musher and 'cellist Sigrid Lemlein played these passages adequately, althought Musher's intonation was sometimes weak and his phrasing lacked clear articulation. Miss Lemlein drew a warm, full tone from her 'cello. The last movement...
Good is represented by a simple-minded old shepherd (Spencer Tracy), the only man ever to climb The Mountain alone (actually the Aiguille du Midi, near Chamonix in the French Alps, where the location shots were made). Evil is the younger brother (Robert Wagner) whom the shepherd, in the absence of a midwife, "brought into the world with his own hands." When a plane rumored to be carrying gold crashes on top of The Mountain just as winter is setting in, little brother begs big brother to guide him up the mountain so that he can loot the plane...
...test Gold's theories, a University of Manchester research team will shortly spend three months at the Pic du Midi observatory in the Pyrenees, measuring variations in the brightness of light on a selected section of the lunar flats. The amount of variation and polarization that occurs at different times of the lunar day will indicate whether the sun's rays are being scattered by tiny dust particles or by solid surface. "Within two or three months we should know definitely," says Professor Zdenek Kopal, who will take charge of the experiment. Meantime, says Cosmologist Gold, spaceship pilots...
From right to left, the editorials praised the stocky little Frenchman. "Tireless energy . . . firm determination," cheered the Socialist Midi Libre. "Authority and dignity . . . honor . . . loyalty," said the right-wing L'Aurore of Paris. "What Frenchmen, apart from sectarians blinded by hatred." asked the left-wing Combat, "could today refuse him their gratitude?" But Pierre Mendès-France was insistent: there must be no show of triumph upon his return from Geneva. He did not conceal from himself the fact that Geneva was a defeat for his country, a victory for Communism; he wanted only to be greeted...