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...glory that is Greece last week played host to the grandeur that is Charles de Gaulle. French Sûreté agents flew in ahead of time to go over the dossiers of resident foreigners and eye new arrivals at Hellenikon airport. Greek army engineers prowled the sewers of Athens, searching for hidden bombs; grey-uniformed cops stood guard 25 yards apart along the eight-mile parade route. Emotionally, a retired Greek general announced that he was personally ready to slash his wrists to give blood, if De Gaulle were shot. More prudently, Greece's Premier Constantine Karamanlis...
...British army officer (Richard Todd), whose stiff upper lip extends right on up to the top of his head, and the moviegoer's wife, the still beautiful Danielle Darrieux. There is some business about whisky, ice trays and special-delivery letters and the services of la Súreté would be needed to get it all straight. Certainly the subtitles are of little help...
Died. Vice Admiral James Harmon Thach Jr., U.S.N. (ret.), 61, chief of staff to NATO's Atlantic Fleet (1955-57), a dry-witted gunnery officer who was one of the first to develop rocket armament for the navy, brother of Vice Admiral John Smith ("Jimmy") Thach, 57, chief of the Pacific Fleet's Anti-Submarine Warfare Force; of cancer; in Old Lyme, Conn...
...Major Archibald Arnold Jr., 39, who helps train Vietnamese Civil Guard self-defense units. Father: Major General (ret.) Archibald V. Arnold, formerly chief of planning and training of the Army Field Forces...
...Captain Craig Spence, 29, artillery officer to a Vietnamese Ranger camp. Father: Brigadier General (ret.) William Spence, a World War II artillery officer in the Philippines...