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...Mme, Colette Cordebas, professor of Economics at Grenoble University, maintained that "No solution--either French or international--would be really a good one. Any solution will make a lot of people unhappy...
...Mme, Cordebas, who lectured at the University of Algiers in 1959-60, added that the beginning of the period of peace in Algeria will prove even more trying than the current negotiations aimed at ending the strife, now in its seventh year...
Noting the recent attempts to establish sovereignty in the Sahara, Mme. Cordebas discussed the proposal to make a partition along the 35th degree parallel. This division of sovereignty, she addded, will probably prove as difficult as negotiating the peace itself. She added that although Algeria needs Saharan oil, the expense of digging for it may prove excessive...
...Oliver Iselin's Pardao (10 to 1). Little attention was paid to Pardao's lackluster half brother, a British-trained colt named Psidium. "We're not backing him much. My husband has only a few bob on him," admitted Psidium's owner, Mme. Arpad Plesch. Bookies in London's newly legalized horse parlors thought even less of Psidium's chances. They offered pre-race odds of 66 to 1, and the Epsom Downs totalizator sent Psidium...
Miller somehow creates the impression of mixing up Christ and Krishnamurti, Huysmans and Mme. Blavatsky. He can write an outburst such as this-"I would like to penetrate up to the eyes to make them waggle ferociously, dear crazy metallurgical eyes ... the radiating light that carries off the fecundating seeds of the stars"-and mean it as a hymn to Dostoevsky. Actually, it has as much to do with the Russian's tragic art and exact moral theorems as it has with lepidopterology or philately; the only thing it says is that Miller is excited in the presence...