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De Gaulle prizes Couve for much more than obedience. Besides Pompidou, Couve was the only minister who each week (usually on Friday afternoon) had a personal talk with De Gaulle. "They weren't really discussions but exchanges in cynicism," recalls an Elysée official. Talking with Couve and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Cool Couve's Greatest Test | 7/19/1968 | See Source »

From the proud parents at the baptismal font to the sorrowing mourners at a young man's wake, the joys and griefs of a Latin American village are rousingly depicted at San Antonio's HemisFair. The weddings, the cockfights, and the bustle of the marketplace are all there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Village Witchery | 7/19/1968 | See Source »

The precision and penetrating power of laser beams have, as predicted, given them entree to the operating room, where they can cut into human and animal tissue as delicately as a finely honed scalpel. Even better, the laser knife does not draw blood. Its searing but highly localized heat cauterizes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Technology: The Power & Potential of Pure Light | 7/12/1968 | See Source »

It is the only play in the canon to take place entirely in one location. And it is maddeningly rigid and sym-metrical in structure--less a drama than a formal and artificial Elizabethan pavane (in a couple of years he would wisely loosen up his predictable precision when he...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: 'Love's Labour's Lost' Midst Rock 'n' Raga | 7/12/1968 | See Source »

Paul Schmidt (Oberon) and Maeve Kinkead (Titania) played their roles relatively straight with precision and intelligence. Which leaves Susan Channing's bi-sexual, jealous, and somewhat perturbed Puck, and if you don't know by now what watching Susan Channing on stage is like, I suggest you find out fast...

Author: By Tim Hunter, | Title: Midsummer Night's Dream | 7/12/1968 | See Source »

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