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Peter Lorre, as a small time peddler of happiness, this time in the form of contraband exit visas, is his usual wicked self and Claude Raines, playing a French prefect willing to go along with the Germans, is brilliantly non-committal. Striking down nothing more menacing than flies, Sidney Greenstreet portrays a man marvelously unconvincing self-proclaimed leader of "all organized crime" in Casablanca. In short, the gang is all here for the picture. The only disappointment is that Lorre is bumped off too soon...
...then had Pesquet known exactly where Mitterrand would stop his car? And why had not Mitterrand, onetime Minister of Interior and known to every police prefect in France, insisted from the very beginning upon special police protection? To this, the usually incisive Mitterrand offered a variety of answers: there was not time; he did not propose to be an informer; he was afraid for the safety of his sons. "Now that I look back," he summed up cryptically, "I reckon that I must have been teleguided and intoxicated...
...turned a deaf ear to proposals that some of Italy's innumerable state-owned enterprises be moved to Trieste and that the city be granted the privilege of importing raw materials and exporting finished goods duty-free. Triestini complain that Sicilian-born Giovanni Palamara, Italy's prefect in Trieste, shrugs off their troubles by saying, "My own island suffers more...
...with a taste for monuments, General Miguel Molina, prefect of Cuzco, decided one day a century ago to dress up the city's main plaza. He thereupon put up a bronze fountain, embellished by four Tritons and topped by a 5-ft. bronze statue identified as Atahuallpa, last of the Inca emperors, who was executed by the Spanish in 1533. But over the years the suspicion has grown in Cuzco that the lofty figure is not Atahuallpa at all. It seems, instead, to be the North American redskin Powhatan, chief of the Algonquins and father of Pocahontas...
...same price, so it compromised. To cash in on the trend, it brought in cars from foreign companies in which the Big Three held big stock interests. General Motors imported the West German-made Opel and the British-made Vauxhall; Chrysler brought in the French Simca, Ford the English Prefect, Consul, Anglia. Since 1955, the Big Three have hiked imports of these foreign cars from 2,100 a year...