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...week, on the desolate, shell-pocked plateau outside Caen, scholars from Harvard, Yale and Smith, from Oxford, Liege, and Lausanne, and ambassadors from Belgium, Canada, and Sweden, gathered near a grandstand bedecked with flags. There France's Minister of National Education Yvon Delbos and Minister of Reconstruction Claudius Petit laid the cornerstone of the new university. Later, at a convocation in Caen's movie theater, the only large auditorium left in the city, an honorary degree was awarded to a university president who wasn't there: Columbia's Dwight D. Eisenhower, whose invasion plans had unintentionally...
Most of the prewar press worked for the Nazis during the occupation. When they fled, the 1,000 "tainted" publications were seized and their sullied titles banned. Today no Paris paper may bear the name of Le Matin, Le Petit Parisien, Le Temps, L'Oeuvre or Paris-Soir, among others. Some 300 publishers have still to stand trial...
...biggest paper (circ. 641,000); the Communist Humanite; the Catholic Figaro, famed for its high literary standards; L'Aurore, which rides the De Gaulle bandwagon; the witty, leftist (but not quite Commie) Franc-Tireur; sober Le Monde, the businessman's bible; and Parisien Libere, favorite of the petit bourgeoisie...
Tridione, used in the petit mal form of epilepsy, may kill by damaging the blood cells...
...before the war, were most incensed of all. Suzanne Kerguelen, famed around the Neuilly food market for her sharpness of tongue, spoke for them all when she said: "Ça, va mal chez moi, comme partout" ("Things are tough at home, and tough all over"). Said Jacques Rumpert, a petit bourgeois like millions of others, who runs a typewriter repair shop at Montparnasse: "Que voulez-vous? I worked hard all my life. My aim was to have a house, with a small garden by the Seine, so I could fish. All that is out now, ... I am not a Gaullist...