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Abashed, the contestants allowed ushers to separate them. Six Deputies repaired to the infirmary with cuts and bruises. "It was a beautiful battle." crowed Poujadist Floor General Jean-Marie Le Pen...
...Mother of Us All: "If people are rich," says Susan B., "they do not listen to anybody; if they are poor, they listen; but all they perceive is the fact that they are listening. As for me, there is no wealth nor poverty, as long as my pen has ink to write...
...Pen is France's youngest Deputy, a handsome, tough tavern brawler with a law degree, a kind of lowbrow intellectual primitive who is currently the darling of Paris café society. Son of a fisherman, he won a scholarship to study law in Paris, cut an impressive swath through the Latin Quarter's bistros and student clubs. After graduation, he volunteered for service in Indo-China as a parachutist ("I was tired of amateur fighting"), but got there too late to fight...
Bitter Man. Returning last fall to his Latin Quarter room with its nude prints, Le Pen installed the new mistress he had picked up in Saigon-an elfin artist with inch-long silver fingernails and two-toned hair (blond on brown). He was bitter about the Communists, about Mendès France's "betrayal" of Indo-China, scornful of France's Deputies, whom he labeled degenerates. Poujade, with his chaotic down-with-taxes, down-with-Parliament protest movement, seemed just what he was looking for. Accused during the campaign of keeping a mistress. Le Pen sneered: "I suppose...
...with his irrigating, Dolci moved on to another town. Partinico, and began once more to plague those in authority. Without bothering to get official permission, he set up a first-aid station in one of the town's back alleys. A spate of pamphlets poured from his angry pen asking, among other questions, "How many people in Partinico will hang themselves this year?" and "How many will go mad?" Dressed in a thick, white pullover sweater, he was often to be seen waiting in the local mayor's office to demand attention on some problem or other. Last...