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...began to make the rounds that the American C.l.A. was behind the abduction. Even Charles de Gaulle allowed as to how that was probably the case. Then, to the French President's chagrin, it became clear that his own police, acting in cahoots with Moroccan officials and the Parisian underworld, had engineered the whole operation. "A vulgar and minor affair," said De Gaulle in airy dismissal...
...because Author Steiner, who is now only 29, seemed to be arguing that many Jews permitted themselves to be murdered by the Nazis without significant resistance, and that a good number of the others sent their fellow slaves to death in order to save their own lives. Steiner, whose Parisian father perished in a concentration camp, says that he felt "the shame of being one of the sons of this people." He interviewed survivors from the Treblinka death factory in Poland to re-create the horror that befell 700,000 Jews...
Thirty years after his moveable Parisian feast, Hemingway remembered that Gertrude Stein had told him to "get out of journalism and write . . . the one would use up the juice that I needed for the other. She was quite right and that was the best advice she gave me." But he did not take it. Instead, he became a gossip columnist, with himself as sole celebrity...
...Want to Know." Floirat's holdings also include a record company, a hotel chain and a Parisian magazine called Lui, which is patterned after Playboy. But no one has yet totaled up the empire's assets. "We don't want to know overall figures," says Floirat's son-in-law and principal aide, Roger Créange. "They would make us dizzy, and we might want to stop expanding...
...young Julio entered the Buenos Aires Academy of Fine Arts at 15, evolved from naturalistic painter into op artist under the influence of the works of Klee, Mondrian and Vasarely. He emigrated to Paris in 1958 and two years later, with a handful of other young Parisian artists, formed the highly experimental Groupe de Recherche dArt Visuel. One of the group's "researches" consisted of passing out Le Fare's cheating cheaters, along with chairs and shoes set on kangaroo springs, to passers-by on the St. Germain and Montparnasse boulevards. The man in the street loved them...