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...Brussels, where he has discovered a gourmet's haven called Comme Chez Soi far off the beaten track, Heath gives small, elegant dinner parties for individual delegations. Says one recent guest: "He starts doing business immediately, asking questions all the time: 'Why do you do this?' 'Why do you want that?' By dessert he knows exactly what he wants to know." Though many were skeptical of Britain's motives at first, Heath has convinced Common Market officials of his government's deep commitment to membership in the community. "If this...
Despite the patently dubious purpose expressed in their title, (only pseudo-liberals, after all, would follow the soi-disant President in his current "crusade" for freedom in the world--for goodness knows just what he means by it), the Young Americans for Freedom are preeminently the only group of Junior Citizens (a current term, one believes) that this country dares send to Helsinki this summer to participate in the latest of one of those dangerous Youth Festivals sponsored by the other side...
...likes to think that the CRIMSON BOOKSHELF is rather like a dirigible, which, pumped full of a light and heady Gas that, though adhering to the Laws of the eminent Boyle and the estimable Charles, has, nevertheless, that unfettered property which given materialistic Science--now soi-disant Mistress of all Nature, but once the scullery maid of the great scholastic Doctors, who in their wisdom, their prescience and their closeness to the truths of the human Heart did not denigrate those Books of non-cumulative Knowledge (among which one may number the most precious Jewels in the Diadem of Civilization...
...crowd at Grenoble during a swing through eastern France, De Gaulle said: "France intends that if, by misfortune, atomic bombs were to be dropped on the world, none should be dropped by the free world's side unless she should have accepted it, and that, from her soi , no atomic bomb should be launched unless she herself should have decided it." He was still a man who did not seem to mind a lonely eminence...
Everybody loves Sékou Touré. Independence is sweet; Nothing is more beautiful than to be independent chez soi. Vive Sékou Touré! Vive éekou Touré, our clairvoyant chief...