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...South by 230 km, the Tuc D'Audoubert and Grotte des Trois Frères, caves of a similar vintage and impact as Lascaux, have never been open to the public. Count Robert Bégouën, whose father and uncles found the caves on the family's Pyrenean estate in the years just before World War I, continues a family tradition that decrees no one enters either cave without a Bégouën at their side. Not even Jean Clottes, who wrote an extensive monograph on Tuc, was allowed to venture off a narrow path along...
...more than 20 years, Trombe has championed solar furnaces as an ideal source of intensive heat for both industrial uses and scientific experimentation. In 1946 he fashioned his first sun stove out of a captured German antiaircraft searchlight mirror at an observatory near Paris. Moving to the old Pyrenean citadel town of Mont-Louis, where the sun shines as many as 200 days a year, he has since built five larger solar furnaces. Now, in masterly style, he has created his piéce de résistance on a hillside in the nearby ski resort of Odeillo. Compared with...
...Catalonia-born Maestro Casals, who detests Spanish Dictator Francisco Franco so heartily that he will not play in Spain, moved to Puerto Rico in 1956 from his longtime home in self-exile in the French Pyrenean town of Prades. He played last April at the yearly Festival Casals in San Juan, is now in Prades for a reprise of the festivals he used to hold there. *A Reuters correspondent once needled Munoz with the question: "Yes, but when will Puerto Rico get economic freedom from the U.S.?" Shot back Munoz: "About the same time Britain does...
...Positive Results." Two months ago French Socialist Senator Pierre Commin, who had known both Nenni and Saragat and shared a Pyrenean shelter with Nenni during the Nazi occupation, slipped inconspicuously into Rome. He came shortly after Nenni, in a windy polemic, had expressed horror at Moscow's revelations about Stalin, and implied that Khrushchev was not really much better. At the behest of the Socialist International (which is disturbed by the Nenni Socialists' loyalty to Moscow, the only such partnership in Western Europe), suave, strongly anti-Communist Pierre Commin did his best to persuade his two old friends...
...Novelist Bory, an inveterate courtroom spectator, discovered Sylvie soon after the war,when she was haled into court for stealing from her sister-in-law's Paris apartment seven dresses, six blouses, a kilo of sugar, a rabbit-fur vest, 10.000 francs and the stuffed head of a Pyrenean lizard. The judges sentenced her to three months in prison. Novelist Bory then & there determined to make Sylvie the heroine of his next book. The novel Fragile, or the Basket of Eggs* became a bestseller...