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Despite the tension in Algeria, the nationwide referendum date De Gaulle has set for January 8 remains unchanged: Frenchmen would be called upon to vote oui or non to his policies. De Gaulle brusquely showed he would not tolerate extremist European defiance in Algiers, incidentally making clear that he blamed the Europeans, not the Moslems, for instigating the riots. Forty civil servants in Algeria, who had quit work in answer to the strike call of the extremist Front de l' Algérie Française, were sacked from their jobs and the Front itself ordered dissolved. The same...
...three biggest influences on his work were actually Groucho, Chico and Harpo Marx. Answering written questions from the house, he picked up a cold potato that went "Do you think that the modern dramatic artist is essentially alienated?", thought it over and gave a perfect, two-syllable answer: "Oui...
Yachtsman Cornelius Shields, "the grey fox of Long Island Sound"). Both Suzy and Shields had slipped out of Paris-quietly, deftly, on the sunny side of discreet. "Suzy is just taking a vacation," said her French husband, who has been seeing her now and then. "Ah oui," said the gossips knowingly. Meanwhile, sentimental fans remembered Suzy as the young heroine of Ten North Frederick, who responds to the passion of her roommate's father, Gary Cooper. And, coincidentally, Actor Cooper, 58, is the real-life son-in-law of Paul V. Shields...
...tough back country, French hopes of creating a new Moslem spirit rise with each convert they win away from the rebel F.L.N.; no longer is Moslem support of the French confined to the docile, despised beni-oui-ouis (yes men). One village mayor switched sides abruptly after the brutal 1957 Melouza massacre by the F.L.N. Another convert was hardy Mohammed ben Chickh, only a year ago top sergeant in a crack F.L.N. commando outfit. Last September he rode into a French army post on a mule, explained he had grown disillusioned with...
...control about 25% of the vote in Martinique, 40% in Guadeloupe, carefully steer clear of the expectable cries for independence. The wisdom of their caution was plainly proved last year when the islanders gave Charles de Gaulle's agree-or-get-out Fifth Republic referendum an overwhelming oui...