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Early one morning last week, the phone rang for Nikita Khrushchev at the elegant Chateau Rambouillet, country residence of France's Presidents. On the other end of the line was Soviet Ambassador to France Sergei Vinogradov with the news that France had just exploded in the Sahara its second atomic bomb-a small one, roughly the size of the U.S.'s Hiroshima bomb (20 kilotons), but far closer to being a portable, functional weapon than the first 60-to 70-kiloton French bomb...
...world's most belligerent peace lover, and loud public opponent of all nuclear testing, could Nikita avoid denouncing France in strong terms? The answer came clear when, after a bacon-and-eggs breakfast, Khrushchev encountered De Gaulle in Rambouillet's 16th century Hall of Marble. "Hurrah for France!" cried Nikita...
...final afternoon of his mission to France, the President drove out of town, dropped in at his old NATO command at Rocquencourt, headed on through the green lanes of prospering France to stay overnight with De Gaulle at the country mansion of French Presidents, the centuries-old Chateau de Rambouillet. There Ike confided to De Gaulle the major conclusion of his mission to date. Said the President emphatically: he has seen a dramatic change for the better in France since De Gaulle has taken over -"a sense of purpose.'' And about De Gaulle, the President confided...
Died. Germaine Corblet Coty, 69, wife of France's President René Coty; of a heart attack; at the President's summer residence, the Château de Rambouillet near Paris...
Before the Experts. As the hours ticked away, Eddie judged the Quarter Horse studs, Angus heifers, Hereford bulls, Hereford heifers, Angus steers. At each class he stood back, then circled around the animals, felt for firmness and fat. He passed to the Southdown fat lambs, the Rambouillet ewes, the Hampshire ewes. Finally he moved to the swine area for the Duroc fat barrows, the Berkshire fat barrows and the Poland gilts. Of all the classes, the fat lambs troubled him most ("and I raise them at home...