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...this subject, he goes on dropping clues in an ever-lengthening paper chase which seems to lead straight through the potting shed into a paradoxical garden where loss of faith is somehow proof of God's existence. The latest is a new short story called A Visit to Morin. Presented along with a slight bouquet of recent literary Greenery, Morin is fascinating (and likely to draw more attention than the other stories in the book) precisely because it seems to carry Greene a razor's edge closer to despair than did A Burnt-Out Case, his most recent...
Like Greene, Morin is a Roman Catholic novelist. He has had enthusiastic non-Christian readers who "detected in his work the freedom of speculation which put his fellow Catholics on their guard." But Morin has apparently written away his faith. He now views his successful past as a Catholic writer with distaste. "Long after I ceased to believe myself," he explains, "I was a carrier of belief, as a man can be a carrier of disease without being sick...
...plants, the new light seems twice as bright (gives off twice as much usable energy) as it does to humans. Bathed in its lavender glow, leaves look dark blue-green, and Electrical Engineer Joseph Roland Morin, head of the team that developed Gro-Lux, predicts a great future for the off-color plant lamp. Long before it lights up indoor farms, it may be a boon to commercial florists. "In 20 years," says Morin, "you won't see any more conventional greenhouses...
What's Up? Premier Michel Debré was the first in Paris to learn that the rebellion was on. Calling the delegate general to Algeria, Jean Morin, to check on rumors of impending trouble, Debre snapped, "What's up?" Over his bedroom telephone. Morin answered: "I'm not free. These gentlemen are in my room. I can't say any more except that we're well." Debre at once aroused De Gaulle, who had spent the evening at the thea ter with Senegal's Poet-President Leopold Senghor...
...cool darkness before Sunday morning dawn, squads of paratroopers stealthily slipped through the streets of Algiers. One group ringed the ornate Moorish residence of France's delegate general in Algeria, Jean Morin, and unceremoniously took him prisoner in his bed. Also seized was Transport Minister Robert Buron, who happened to be visiting Algiers. Other paratroopers took prisoner the top military man in Algeria. General Fernand Gambiez, and occupied all the city's key buildings-post office, police and government offices. Shortly before 9 a.m., Radio Algiers announced the news to the stunned city: three paratroop regiments had taken...