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...more to Carpenter than break his left leg and collapse a lung; it changed his life. Lying in a hospital bed for two weeks, Carpenter decided the time had come to settle down. He went back to the university, met and married a pretty, vivacious usherette named Rene Price, and planned to become a Navy pilot after graduation. Despite his new determination, Carpenter found he still could not pass a course in heat transfer that he needed for his degree. But the Navy somehow assumed that he had completed work for his degree and took him back. Seeing a career...
...choice, near Avignon. Against her had been lodged only the minor civil charge of using a false identity card. Her husband remains in Cell 57 of Sante Prison, preparing to go on trial for his life next week. His request to subpoena President de Gaulle and ex-Presidents Rene Coty and Vincent Auriol among 39 defense witnesses has been refused. But he has been granted use of an electric razor to shave off the mustache he was wearing as a disguise when captured...
...Rene Clement's Purple Noon (Plein Soleil) is the highly successful marriage of at least two movies. By turns a mystery thriller and a beautiful portrait of the Mediterranean, it emerges as a poignant statement of human corruption in a modern Eden...
...after the plot was broken. Says Nolasco: "The tyrant ordered the compromised officers burned alive." Other survivors tell of a ferocious murder binge immediately after Trujillo's assassination by a band of gunmen last May. Literally scores of people were horribly tortured and killed. Among the victims: General Rene Roman Fernandez, an in-law of Trujillo and secretary of the armed forces, who was suspected of playing a role in the plot. S.I.M. agents took the general to Nine, where he was left for days with his eyelids stitched to his eyebrows; he was then beaten with baseball bats...
Most of Tshombe's staff work was coordinated by French army veterans seasoned in Indo-China and Algeria. Ablest and best known is Major Rene Faulkes, a thin, ascetic ex-para officer who was left for dead in Indo-China and who became notorious in Algeria for torturing French sympathizers of the F.L.N. Faced with a treason rap in France, many of the French mercenaries are acutely sensitive about publicity; they have threatened to kill photographers and television cameramen who have attempted to take their pictures. "The French are brave, resolute, and fanatical," says a former U.N. official. "Most...