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...witnessed a remarkable 800 to 900 weddings. Couples itching to be hitched flock there from all over France and neighboring Switzerland, only a mountain torrent and a small bridge away. What makes Novel the Elkton, Md., or Gretna Green, Scotland, of France is the hamlet's mayor, René Bouvet. An athletic, effervescent man of 42, Bouvet does not believe in the ten-day posting of the bans or the month-long residency required by French law. His motto: "Just say 'yes,' I'll do the rest...
This busy cupid has become so popular that a Swiss radio station broadcast an Alexandrine in his honor the other day: "Si tu veux te marier, va trouver René." Bouvet appreciated the sentiment but not the publicity; the French Ministry of Justice could fine him $5.50 for every marriage pronounced without posting of bans. Thus, when five couples seeking marriage turned up in Novel last week, they found that Monsieur le maire was not in a marrying mood. "My husband is all worn out, so he has gone to Switzerland to lie in a sauna," said his wife...
...Beauvoir, Alberto Moravia and Carlos Fuentes) protested. But what got him out, five weeks later, were his own words. Padilla abjectly confessed to "a series of insults and defamations against the revolution, which are now-and always will be-my shame." He accused European leftist Writers K.S. Karol and René Dumont, who recently published critical studies of Castro's regime (TIME. Feb. 8), of being "unquestionably CIA agents...
...operations worked moderately well. But what revolutionized revascularization was a procedure developed at the Cleveland Clinic by Dr. René Favaloro, now 48, an Argentine-born surgeon who joined Effler in 1962 to study coronary-artery disease. In an operation first performed four years ago next week, he removed a section of his patient's saphenous vein, attached one end to the blocked right coronary artery at a point below the obstruction, stitched the other to a spot on the aorta above the blockage. The procedure allowed blood to bypass the blockage and greatly improved the heart...
What ruffled the jurists was an ill-advised comment by a previously obscure politician named René Tomasini, 51. Elected secretary-general of the Gaullist party only last month, the outspoken Tomasini made his maiden appearance before the parliamentary correspondents' association last week, and he sounded like a Gallic Spiro Agnew. He lauded the French policeman as "the representative of liberty." He declared that any breakdown in law-and-order was not the fault of the police but was due to "the cowardice of the magistrates." He lit into the state-owned television networks for showing "the negative aspects...