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...rest almost evenly divided. Last week the first poll taken after the general's ultimatum turned up results that would dismay a lesser man. A full 40% of the voters had not yet made up their minds, and the rest were still divided. Only 52% intended to vote oui for De Gaulle's program-and therefore for De Gaulle himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: France: The Politics of Risk | 4/25/1969 | See Source »

...most of Briare's 5,140 people, the referendum seems awfully remote. Hardly anyone except Mayor Henri Dabard, a brisk ex-World War I fighter pilot, talks about it in terms of regionalization or senate reform. Instead, Briare will be voting oui or non on De Gaulle, just as it has in the previous four referendums the general has staged since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: The Nation in Miniature | 4/25/1969 | See Source »

...slight that the outcome is by no means certain. A poll taken a few days before his speech indicated that 52% of the electorate planned either not to cast ballots at all or were undecided how they would vote.Of the remaining 48%, the sampling was almost evenly divided between oui...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: France: Once More, the Ultimatum | 4/18/1969 | See Source »

...younger and more impecunious may seem indifferent toward clothes, but the more prosperous often prove to be strutting peacocks. Before Sculptor Jean Arp died in 1966, recalls the tailor, "he would walk through a party in Paris, twiddle with his lapels and say to people, 'Sapone, eh oui, un Sapone!' " The definition of un Sapone varies widely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Collectors: The Needle and the Brush | 1/17/1969 | See Source »

Tout le monde, oui, tout le monde m'aimerait...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 10, 1968 | 5/10/1968 | See Source »

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