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Seven former Premiers and Presidents of the Fourth Republic stood bareheaded in Le Havre last week at the funeral of René Coty, the last President of that era. But it was Charles de Gaulle, the man of the Fifth Republic, who stepped forward to deliver the eulogy. He clearly intended it also to be a funeral oration for the Fourth Republic. Praising Coty's "breadth of vision and good sense," President de Gaulle turned with bitter words to the old "regime, paralyzed by its own confusion," and its leaders, "who failed through impotence...
...Gaulle's health is excellent, except for his failing eyesight. He has had an operation for a cataract on one eye, and vision in the other is dim. Yet vanity makes him try to avoid wearing glasses in public. At last week's funeral of ex-President René Coty, De Gaulle walked ponderously up to the stairs leading to the platform. He put on his glasses and momentarily studied the steps, then whipped the glasses off and strode giraffe-like toward the top. Sure enough, he stumbled over an unnoticed ridge en route...
Ostroff's touch is also lyrical ("I see your several faces, sculptured, each/An agony too pale for flesh to bear"), occasionally dramatic, now and then humorous. In Sören-Regina, based on Sören Kierkegaard's love for Regine Olsen, whose girl-child beauty haunted him all his life, he combines all his various talents in his wisest answer to the persisting theme of thought v. beauty, mind v. soul: I write, he said. Too stupid to fly, Too impure to do real magic, I, To work the transformation in a wink, Must painfully and tediously...
Nature is rarely so expensive; Adrian's new hair pieces cost anywhere from $75 for a readymade, solid-color version to the custom-made, many-splendored thing at $500. Adrian (real name: René A. Caricari), who claims to have invented the side wave, the wing wave, the beehive and the Psyche look, will put his hair pieces on view next week for the first time (atop mannequins in Saks's Manhattan windows). He steadily insists that they are more than a passing fancy. "The look for this fall, and next year too, is pure elegance," he says...
Sudden Retirement. Though the U.S. is trying to compel Duvalier to mend his ways, Haiti's intransigent tyrant was still showing a preference for his own gang instead of the army. The army's chief of staff, General Jean-René Boucicaut, worried for his own safety, fled with his wife and children to asylum in the Venezuelan embassy. Swearing in a replacement, his fifth army boss in as many years, "Papa Doc," as Duvalier likes to be called, blandly announced that the 44-year-old Boucicaut had reached "the age of retirement...