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Cool & Condescending. Last week's 85 contestants had hardly roared away from the starting line when three factory-backed Citroëns were penalized for exceeding Nairobi's posted speed limit of 30 m.p.h. Outside city limits, nature took over. A Peugeot had a headlight demolished by a spleenful buffalo; another car hit a giraffe. Britain's Stirling Moss, essaying a backwoods comeback after the near-fatal accident that forced his retirement from the Grand Prix circuit three years ago, condescended to navigate for Brother-in-Law Erik Carlsson, and lost him cold-amid hot argument-somewhere...
...describe its grace, charm, vivacity and inventiveness." Couperin's work, she observed, has "an immutable and restricted frame. He moves in it with ease, as did the actresses and dancers of the past, even though they were tightly laced in their corsets." As for Saint-Saëns, she noted that he was considered a master of form. "Yes, the form is there, bright, like latticework. But there is nothing...
...traditional anthracite production is down. Describing the deadening bureaucracy, a French correspondent reported: "No one in a factory moves as much as a stool without asking the advice of an entire ministry." On Hanoi's broad avenues, which under the French were abustle with Renaults and Citroëns, traffic consists mostly of bicycles and pedicabs, and shop windows are bare. The principal diversions are 5:30 a.m. exercises, reading propaganda posters, and endless indoctrination sessions...
DISCOVERY '63 (ABC, 12:30-1 p.m.). Bil Baird's Puppets dance to Saint-Saëns' Carnival of the Animals, with poetry by Ogden Nash...
...longer. In Canada these days, an eye-rolling love affair is blossoming between Quebec and the France of Charles de Gaulle's politique de grandeur. French Renaults, Peugeots and Citroëns fill the Montreal streets; French wines, Vichy water and apéritifs are all the rage. Air France and Trans-Canada Air Lines enjoy a booming tourist trade: TCA ran 600 charters to Europe this year...