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Nothing much had happened to Corsica since Napoleon left home in 1779. The island's haughty, hawk-nosed men still rode off sidesaddle on their donkeys to fight vendettas. Their wives still milked the native sheep to produce a cheese with the clout and consistency of a plastic bomb. The sun still sank blood-red behind the Sanguinary Isles, while local folk singers recalled the prowess of Bonaparte in their atonal anthem, L'Ajaccienne. A calm enough scene-until early last summer, when the somber, somnolent island awoke to the 20th century. Suddenly, bombs exploded in the night...
...tour of autonomous Sicily and Sardinia (which still retain ties with Italy), felt the same. "Autonomy is the essential ingredient," said one. "This is not just evolution, but revolution," said another. Paris doubtless was recalling the words of Corsica's favorite son. Regarding Corsican separatism, Napoleon himself took a realistic view: "All these notions of national independence for a little island like Corsica!" exclaimed Bonaparte to his brother Lucien in 1802. "What difference does it make in the universal balance...
...crush-out to get rid of a rival carted off the metal remains in, of all things, a Ford "Ranchero" pickup truck! Chrysler has signed agreements with no less than 17 TV shows to use its cars, among them Peyton Place, Dr. Kildare, the Beverly Hillbillies and The Fugitive. Napoleon Solo escapes Thrush in a Dodge; Efrem Zimbalist Jr. tools around on FBI business in a Mustang...
HALLMARK HALL OF FAME (NBC, 7:30-9 p.m.).* Eagle in a Cage stars Trevor Howard as Napoleon in exile on St. Helena...
Speaking for irate Italians everywhere, John N. (for Napoleon) La Corte, general director of the Italian Historical Society of America, warned directly: We are going to put Yale against the wall. La Corte threatened to enlist the National Geographic Society in support of Columbus, but dropped the idea when he learned it was the Geographic that sponsored the 1963 excavation of a Scandinavian village in Newfoundland that dates from about...