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Victory by '67. Aside from the ALQ terrorists, several organizations have been formed in recent years, drawing a few thousand supporters whose fanaticism alarms the more moderate nationalists. Says René Lévesque, Quebec's Minister of Natural Resources and a longtime champion of French rights: "There are men behind me who make me feel nervous...
...Total Punishment." Down from Dakar and Brazzaville winged two companies of paratroopers under the overall command of General René Cogny, the hero of Dienbienphu. At 2 p.m. they began landing at the Libreville airport, where the rebels providentially had failed to erect obstacles on the runway. The troopers swept through the city with little resistance, but the coup leaders made a stand at Baraka. Sending Mba off under guard to a village near Dr. Albert Schweitzer's hospital at Lambarene, the rebels prepared to meet the imminent French attack. It came next morning as French fighters stooped like...
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...full-employment France of today, it is surprising that anyone will work the long hours at low pay required of the concierge. René Laffon, head of the biggest of four concierge unions, says, "People do it just to get housing. It used to be a sort of profession. Now you have young couples who can't find an apartment, or elderly widows with no income and nowhere to go." Frédéric-Dupont claims that concierges are not so much surly as suffering, from loneliness, illness, malnutrition and exhaustion. He adds: "They are continually interrupted...
...will have a budget of $670,000 a year to run the White House and grounds, with a domestic and maintenance staff that normally stands at 77.* Jackie Kennedy's French chef, René Verdon, will stay on-but mostly to perform for fancy official affairs. For everyday eating, Lady Bird brought along Mrs. Zephyr Wright, the Johnsons' cook for 21 years. Zephyr is an expert at spoon bread, homemade ice cream and monumental Sunday breakfasts of deer sausage, home-cured bacon, popovers, grits, scrambled eggs, homemade peach preserves and coffee...