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From Japan to Britain, radios had reported the gathering tension at Canaveral, the blast-off and the brief, successful flight. Congratulatory messages poured in from the world's capitals. Few foreigners shared the cool scorn of the Parisian who growled: "The Americans are crazy, and the Russians are crazy, too." Nor did anyone west of the Iron Curtain echo Radio Prague, which called Shepard's flight "scientifically primitive." In Europe and the U.S. most space spectators agreed with Leonard J. Carter, secretary of the British Interplanetary Society: "The Americans had the right way of doing it. Unlike...
...trying to film a movie called Gigot, about a lovable deaf-mute bum whose best friend is an alley cat. In the first scene, the cat is supposed to hear an alarm clock, wake up, and then rouse his deaf ami by licking his face. But the first dozen Parisian alley cats had flunked their screen tests. Gleason, who plays Gigot, swabbed off the sardine oil and discussed things with Actor-Director Kelly. Importing trained cats from Hollywood would cost almost $10,000, it developed. It was decided to go on with the screen tests. Gleason smeared on more sardine...
...Draft. The stock market of 18th century thought was the Parisian salon, and Author Nicolson gracefully traces its origins and culls its quotations. He argues that it sharpened wits and spread ideas. He also feels that it stamped on the French mind one of its congenital flaws-"the tendency to believe that an idea that is ingeniously expressed, even in the form of a bright epigram, must in some ways be true...
...traditionally called revolutionary trade-unionism." Influenced no doubt by the use of the word "unions" in America, where it has come to mean something a little different, we thought Camus might be backing down. He wasn't. In a speech titled Bread and Freedom, addressed to a meeting of Parisian workingmen in 1953, he explains: "I have recognized only two aristocracies, that of labor and that of the intelligence"--he joins the rebellion of one to the revolution of the other to the encouragement of both. Unlike most of Camus' writings this article must be read and studied carefully before...
Irma La Douce. England's delightful singer-dancer Elizabeth Seal in a show that kicks its heels with Parisian verve...