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...Gaulle still remained something of a mystery to Americans. He claimed a grandeur, a synecdoche of self and nation ("La France, c'est moi"), which in another man would have seemed monstrously totalitarian, or at least extremely eccentric. America's last comparable hero was Dwight Eisenhower, as Kansan as De Gaulle was Cartesian, and it may be that Ike was the last man who could have said with any safety: "I am America!" Richard Nixon would not dare to try the formulanor would Georges Pompidou, for that matter. The U.S. has accommodated itself to a life...
...feel differently about what I lay on the line and what I do with my money too," Nichols says. "There are suddenly so many urgent things that we must do for one another to make sure that we continue to live on this earth. The kind of après-moi-le-dé-luge parties and life-style that goes with them seem more and more distasteful. The accounts of such rounds are beginning to sound like Evelyn Waugh parties in a dirigible during...
...problems of France or to his successor. Last month the first result of his labors was published: Messages and Speeches 1940-1946, a 665-page compilation of his addresses during the war years. The general has also completed the first of his three-volume series on la France et moi, covering the period until 1962. It will be published in the fall. The second volume, covering 1962-65, is scheduled to be completed within another 18 months, and the third presumably within a similar length of time. Four more volumes of his speeches are also scheduled for publication...
...wheat. Many find the result unpalatable. Domestic rice production takes about 40 times the number of man-hours per pound that it does in Russia or Japan-partly because women workers, who now constitute more than 80% of the labor force, tire quickly in the paddies. According to Hanoi Moi, the capital's main daily, food lines have grown so long that some stores pass out "appointment numbers," assigning the customer a specific time to shop...
...tunic-cum-trousers, or for a winter coat. There is little local transportation except for bicycles. One recent visitor to Hanoi reported that the only nonessential goods he saw for sale were some Chinese-made pingpong balls. Hanoi's beer gardens frequently sell out before closing time. Hanoi Moi recently carried one letter from a cigarette-factory worker who apologized for the number of cigarettes that were "only half full of tobacco," and another from a smoker who complained: "You have to strike more than ten matches before one will light...