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Many evenings there are lines outside his basement nightclub, "Catacombs 65" (from the church's address, 65 Quai d'Orsay), waiting to drink coffee or lemonade and hear young singers and musicians. In another adjunct of the church, its 300-seat theater, the professional Paris Theater Workshop-whose advisers include Jean Seberg and William Saroyan-presents Sartre, Beckett and Albee as part of "Open End," a freewheeling series of dramas, concerts and discussions...
...sunset, Khrushchev and Ustinov landed at Moscow's Vnukovo Airport, where a ZIL limousine waited. The long black car whipped across the Lenin Hills, along Kremlevskaya Quai, where lights glittered on the Moskva River...
...interested. The visits can be deceiving: one kindergarten class began a quacking song for the benefit of a French tourist. As he recalls it, " 'How charming,' I thought, 'a song about ducks.' But then I learned they were singing something that sounded like quan quoat quai, which means, more or less, 'Ugly imperialists, go home...
...Gabon's 6,000 Frenchmen that meant only one thing: the U.S. had been behind the abortive coup in hopes of discountenancing le grand Charles. This pied-noir illogic reached all the way to Paris' Quai d'Orsay, where foreign-office officials helped spread the rumor. Last week the anti-American feeling coalesced into violence. A Simca-load of colons cruised past the U.S. embassy in Libreville, peppered the building with shotgun fire. An hour later a bomb exploded in the garden...
Disenchanted Comments. Perhaps because Couve de Murville is so nearperfect as a diplomat, he is elusive as a man. Respected but not loved by his Quai associates, he has the ministry machinery under total and constant control. He takes no notes, commits what he needs to know-which is practically everything-to his prodigious memory. Said one dazed aide: "Couve's been to practically all the conferences since 1945, and he can remember what Gromyko said at this one, what the British position was on that...