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...mostly French. The government is permeated with French technical advisers. Many of them are left over from colonial days, and some are suspected of helping French firms win trade contracts. Political opposition to Houphouet is almost nonexistent, but more and more unemployed university graduates have become bitter that the plush jobs usually go to Europeans...
ADAM AT 6 A.M. also concerns itself with youth and Middle America. The son of upper-middle-class parents, Adam flees his plush Los Angeles home for a summer in the heartland. He winds up in Missouri, where he gets a job with a road gang and meets one of those teenage girls (Lee Purcell) who favor pink and pigtails, and announce with pride: "I was valedictorian of my high school class." He falls in love with both the girl and the country, but neither romance can sustain the burden of examination and analysis to which Adam constantly subjects them...
That enthusiasm is reflected in the atmosphere of Fannie Mae's offices, which now sport bright red and yellow pile carpeting, original oil paintings and plush furniture. Gordon Nelson, the association's press agent, even wears a flashy tie pin engraved with a bull and a bear and the price of the company's stock when it moved onto the Big Board...
...decade ago from his office in the family candy firm, when he was appalled by a survey that showed widespread functional illiteracy below the levels of the Chattanooga society in which he lived. He and his friends organized their own training program, and Brock started coming down from his plush home atop Lookout Mountain to teach reading and writing to impoverished blacks...
Traumatized Animals. Science too will profit from the Thoiry menagerie if the viscount has his way: he plans to study the behavior of the birds and beasts on the plush grounds of the château. "In nature," Paul explains, "the animals vanish before you can really watch them, and in zoos they are so traumatized that their behavior is never authentic. But here at the Chateau de Thoiry, we have particularly favorable conditions...