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...Sica calls Miracle in Milan a fable for grownups, a tale suspended midway between fantasy and reality. And in its wealth of visual ideas, its deft use of music, its passages of bitter-sweet humor, stylized playfulness and social satire, the picture recalls the best of Charlie Chaplin and Rene Clair. But it is also an original work of art, touched in its finest moments with the elusive magic of poetry...
...Premier Rene Pleven's precarious four-month-old French government last week risked a vote of confidence. Pleven had had the courage to make the issue France's new austerity program : a 200-billion-franc tax increase, a 40% cut in dollar imports. He knew that he would be fought by Communists on the left and Gaullists on the right. He could not count on the help of the Socialists, who had announced that they would abstain. "If we get less than a ten-vote majority, we'll resign," said Pleven. "If we get more than twelve...
Track coach Jaakko Mikkola and fencing mentor Rene Peroy will retire at the end of this year, it was learned his night. Both veterans of University coaching will reach the age of 66 by spring. No replacements will be announced until then...
Paris' Samedi Soir called it le drame politico-passlonnel. The principal characters: Subway Conductor Jean Laffargue, 41, his wife Yvonne, 37, and Rene ("Little Napoleon") Desvillettes, 47, mayor of the deep-Red Communist suburb of Champigny. All three were loyal Communists and diligent party workers. Trouble started when the politico got mixed up with the passionnel...
...Queuille (Radical), 67, outgoing Premier, first to be asked by President Auriol to form a new government, refused, pleading ill health. ¶ Maurice Petsche (Independent), 55, able Minister of Finance in the retiring cabinet, gave up after one week. ¶ Robert Schuman (M.R.P.), 65, ex-Foreign Minister, refused. ¶ Rene Mayer (Radical), 56, ex-Minister of Justice, took a week to put a program together, failed to get the required confidence vote from the Assembly. ¶ Georges Bidault (M.R.P.), 51, ex-Premier, gave up after one day. ¶ Paul Reynaud (Independent), 72, Premier at the time of France...