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...lurks a passion more potent, if possible, than his love of the franc or good food. Its outward and visible symbol is the bicycle, but the emotions that bicycling inspires in France have little to do with transportation or exercise. For priests, market-bound peasants, bankers who would sooner pedal than be chauffeured, bicycling is a way to dream and drift in dignity, to twirl life like a long-stemmed glass of Alsace wine. "Vive le vélo, un ami de l'homme" proclaims an affectionate Norman toast: "Long live the bike, a friend...
...Tour's elaborate entourage includes three Red Cross cars staffed by nurses who can bandage riders as they pedal, mobile machine shops to keep the bikes in trim, truckloads of extra bicycles and parts. One of the promoters' biggest expenses is providing saddle snacks for the bicyclists, whose jaws work almost as busily as their legs. This year riders gulped 1,000 roast chickens, 300 lbs. of chocolate, 21,000 quarts of mineral water, 100,000 prunes. Barred from the menu: white wine and fried food, which induce cramps. Press helicopters hovered overhead. From tortuous mountain roads, where...
OEVERAL weeks ago, in describing how we put together our cover story on the Cuba disaster, we had to soft-pedal mention of our Havana correspondent, Jay Mallin, who at the time was a "guest" in the Swiss embassy (most European nations do not recognize the right of asylum). Mallin got out last week, and the story of how he escaped arrest and made it to the embassy is told in the Hemisphere section. When he thought it safe to leave the embassy for the airport, escorted by a Swiss official, he became for 3½ hours a member...
...year-old pianist who can clout the keyboard with macelike power or spin out feathery right-hand phrases with impressive speed. All the numbers-Summertime, Blues for Miti, Cheek to Cheek-not only swing but bounce, suggesting that Randi would be wise to reach occasionally for the soft pedal...
...picture, named OPERATION ABOLITION, is so-called because the communists would just as soon soft pedal these scenes...