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Police promptly arrested Massol, who decided to share his secret with them after cooling his heels for a few hours at police headquarters on the Quai des Orfèvres. He led the cops to a garage in the working-class suburb of Saint-Ouen, where the casket was found in the back of a small truck. Police subsequently arrested three of Massol's alleged accomplices: they included François Boux de Casson, a former right-wing Deputy in the Assembly and once a propaganda officer in the Vichy government, and Michel Dumas, owner of a marble tomb...
...from St. Cloud to Montparnasse, from Place d'ltalie to Belleville, there are signs of building, burrowing and bulldozing. Some 60 new skyscrapers puncture a skyline once graced mainly by domes and spires; one cluster of tall buildings even crowds the Eiffel Tower. A superhighway cuts along the quai on the Right Bank of the Seine where Utrillo once painted his cityscapes while patient fishermen waited for the carp to bite. The Place Vendôme, Place de la Madeleine and the Avenue Foch have been gouged to accommodate layer on layer of cars in subterranean parking gai ages...
...final insult was France's refusal to send official representation to the opening of a display of Paris city planning at Jerusalem's new $2,500,000 municipal theater. Jerusalem Mayor Teddy Kollek will preside, and the Quai d'Orsay felt that sending a delegation would compromise the French position that Jerusalem is an international city...
...protecting the negotiations. Pompidou cooperated so completely as to order government-owned national television and radio networks to play down American involvement in Viet Nam as the talks proceeded; on the occasion of one trip he entertained Kissinger at lunch at his private apartment on the Quai de Béthune...
...more likely to be in atmospherics than in substance, the formal welcome of the new U.S. President to Paris will be gracious and el egant. Parisians will be treated to the rare sight of the U.S. flag flying over the Foreign Ministry instead of the customary tricolore. The austere Quai d'Orsay palace, on the Left Bank between the National Assembly and the Invalides, will be turned over to the Nixon party during his stay. The palace walls are decked with priceless Gobelin and Beauvais tapestries, the floors with Savon-nerie carpets. The cellars are stocked with champagne, which...