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...Renée Lehut is 43, small, blonde and shapely. She lives and is politically active, to put it mildly, in the grimy suburb of La Courneuve (voting strength: about 8,000) in Paris' "Red Belt." Ordinarily the town politics of La Courneuve are not big news. But last week Renée Lehut made the transatlantic cables by doing something that millions of women do every day. She changed her mind...
...October, La Courneuve had elected 27 town councillors, 14 of them Communists. One of the 14 was Renée Lehut. Last week the council met in public assembly to choose a mayor. The thing seemed to be in the bag. In a preliminary huddle, the "Cocos" (Commies), holding a majority, had decided to cast a solid vote for one Maurice Léonard...
Incredibly, the shapely Renée had defied the party; she had voted for herself. She simply thought she would be a better mayor than Monsieur Leonard. Nine Gaullists, two Socialists and two Popular Republicans had gleefully agreed...
...hands of René Clair, this yarn might have become a wonderful piece of fun. Bernard Miles and Charles Saunders, who collaborated in writing and directing Pipit, are not quite equal to their idea; and Mr. Miles, who is too young to play the colonel, is not quite up to his role. Now & then the picture, probably the most intensely insular movie the British have yet exported to the U.S., becomes too clumsy or too coy; from beginning to end it is as genteel as rectory crumpets. And though none of the classical Village Types is revealed on the level...
...These issues produce revolutionary types that must have the old bearded filibusteros spinning in their graves. Their headquarters are not in tents in the bush but in smart city clubs and luxurious suburban homes. A good example is General René Picado, defender of the Costa Rican government, a fat, jolly, ex-traveling salesman (Bauer & Black, surgical drugs) who for years told his stories up and down Central America. General René was so worried that a lot of the products of his ex-employer would have to be used in San Jose that he kept three holy candles (especially...