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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...whispered news after parading with Bourguiba to the cheers of 370,000 Tunisians. In Paris Guy Mollet gasped: "It's crazy. I don't believe it." At a midnight conference Mollet accepted the accomplished fact, and the immediate political advantage it gave him. Next morning all Parisian newspapers except the Communist L'H'umanite cheered the French kidnaping. Mollet, declining to surrender rebels "already condemned by French justice,"* won a massive 330-140 vote of confidence. Only ex-Premier Pierre Mendés-France asked whether "those who organized and ordered the action made any attempt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NORTH AFRICA: Aerial Kidnap | 11/5/1956 | See Source »

NOBILITY MARKET CRASHES headlined one Parisian newspaper. "It's only normal," said Robert-Henri Bautier as cries of anguish from France's patricians poured in from every side, "that they refuse to believe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Dishonorable Discharge | 10/29/1956 | See Source »

...bread for distribution by the police. From the audience a baker snouted back, "Let 'em eat biscotte." By week's end, however, the bakers cooled down and their ovens began heating up again. Calling off the strike in Paris, the Bakers Syndicate explained: "We think that the Parisian population, which perhaps can endure a temporary annoyance, should not suffer a persistent lack of bread...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: The Battle of Bread | 10/1/1956 | See Source »

...going, Krasna brings onscreen those familiar enlisted men: the serious-minded, college-bred sergeant (John Forsythe) and his comical, nearly illiterate sidekick (Tommy Noonan), a pair whose tastes are so completely at variance that only Hollywood would think of them as buddies. Forsythe and Olivia romp through a standard Parisian romance-up the Eiffel Tower and down to the caves; along the Seine for lovemaking; to Notre Dame and the fashion shows. Along the way are substandard complications: Forsythe thinks Olivia has stolen his wallet; Olivia thinks Forsythe is trying to seduce her; Forsythe, eavesdropping on Olivia and her father...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Sep. 17, 1956 | 9/17/1956 | See Source »

...Doctors (Kingsley-lnternational) is a French movie in which, as in most movies about doctors and most movies made in France, the part of the anatomy most affected is the heart. Based on Andre Soubiran's international bestseller, it tells of a brilliant but cynical Parisian medical student (Raymond Pellegrin) who acquires an understanding heart as a country doctor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Aug. 13, 1956 | 8/13/1956 | See Source »

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