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Olympio was right, and four days later the French withdrew with what dignity they could. But what about the Ghana story of a plot? Was it just a trap to embarrass Olympio? In Accra officials said nothing, and Paris thought it best to do the same. Sighed one Parisian official helplessly: "Charmant...
...expected better of the general." snapped a longtime Parisian Gaullist last week. "The least we can say is that we are surprised and hurt," wailed the National Federation of Veteran Prisoners of War. Charles de Gaulle, by his actions last week, dramatically refuted those critics who say that he uses high-sounding rhetoric to avoid taking unpopular action...
What Will Jacques Do? The question that most piqued Parisian curiosity at week's end was what would happen to Jacques Soustelle, the fiery "wrecker of Cabinets" who masterminded the revolt that led to De Gaulle's return to power. Ambitious Jacques Soustelle clearly felt he deserved one of the senior Cabinet posts-Defense, Foreign Affairs or Interior -rather than his present Ministry of Information. But the widespread (and possibly exaggerated) suspicion of his tactics and his intentions makes many fear the prospect that as head of the Interior he would control the police. When newsmen queried...
Mile-Long Queues. In 1927 Joseph Joanovici emerged from the obscurity of the Balkans to settle down in the Parisian suburb of Clichy. In twelve years he progressed from a ragpicker's cart to become a millionaire and one of France's top scrap metal dealers. At the outbreak of World War II, 34-year-old Joanovici tried to enlist in the French army. Turned down because he was still a Rumanian national, he sent his personal check for $3,000 to War Minister Edouard Daladier to help the war effort...
Marius Constant is a fast-rising 33-year-old Parisian composer with a peculiar aural defect: he can never listen to a single instrument without mentally hearing all the instruments of the orchestra. This gets so bad, he complains, that "even when I play the piano all by myself, I hear strings and trombones, trumpets and percussion.'' Not long ago Composer Constant also found himself hearing tom-toms, marimbas, vibraphone and celesta. He committed these exotic cerebral sounds to paper, and last week a Parisian audience jammed into the Theatre des Champs-Elysées to hear...