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...said, "and nobody beats this club when it's skating." There was still that one last victory to go, though, and it turned out to be tough. Playing at Detroit, the Canadiens jumped into a 2-0 lead when Jean Beliveau tapped in a rebound and Leon Rochefort slipped a 15-footer past crippled Goalie Crozier. Disgusted Detroit fans littered the ice with rubber balls and garbage-and the Red Wings got the message. Checking brutally, they fought back: Norm Ullman scored late in the second period, and Floyd Smith tapped in a third-period goal...
...Battle of Midway. The Purple Code was a Japanese diplomatic cipher; whether we read it or not had no relation to Midway. What did occur was that in April or early May 1942 a group of naval (including Marine) cryptanalysts and Japanese linguists working under Commander J. J. Rochefort at Pearl Harbor were successful in partially breaking and translating a Japanese naval code. This was a major element (but by no means the only one) affecting the successful disposition of Nimitz' forces for the Battle of Midway...
...fact try to locate the inheritance, called it quits in 1894-and for his pains earned the disapproval of the French National Assembly, which demanded a more thorough investigation. Government opinion, however, seems to have quietly come round to Griffin's conclusions, for a Mallet union founded in Rochefort in 1926 was disbanded shortly afterward-on police orders...
CATS DON'T CARE FOR MONEY by Christiane Rochefort. 183 pages. Doubleday...
Christiane Rochefort's first novel, Warrior's Rest, won the Prix de la Nouvelle Vague in 1959. That book told, with almost clinical clarity, of the inexorable destruction of a young woman who surrenders herself to an insatiable, mad alcoholic. It is not likely that Rochefort's new novel will win any prizes. Celine is a casually wicked misfit who cannot abide middle-class posturings. So she marries Philippe, a stuffed middle-class shirt who is "obsessed with the Absolute the way some people are with golf." Middle-class sex with Philippe only accentuates Celine...