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...secretary-general of the Alpine department of Isère where the town is situated. Five mayors from neighboring towns resigned in protest against the suspensions, and a Deputy from Isère, Aime Paquet, rose in the National Assembly and urged: "Let the dead sleep in peace." France-Soir answered him in a frontpage editorial: "We are not trying to disturb the dead," it said. "We want only to wake up the living...
...Sorbonne, never." When Fouchet argued that there might very well have been serious shooting otherwise, Alexandre quoted De Gaulle as replying: "So what? Maybe there would have been 50 dead. I would have immediately replaced the Premier." When replacement time did come, Pompidou learned of it from France-Soir Editor Pierre Lazareff, with whom he was lunching that day. "Well, what are you going to do when you're no longer here?" Lazareff began briskly. Fifteen minutes later the Elysée Palace called with the confirmation...
...have to win every fight." Then, clutching an unopened bottle of champagne, he stood up and asked through a translator: "Overall, what did you think of me?" The reporters politely applauded. In Paris, where the fight was televised via satellite, the verdict was harsher -and truer. Headlined France-Soir: THE END OF A DREAM: CERDAN WON'T BE ABLE TO BECOME WORLD CHAMPION...
...Tass, Indian students have asked their Soviet friends to send them seedlings from Ulyanovsk because "they want to grow trees from the motherland of Lenin." He was the subject of an "international" meeting in Bamako, Mali, and of a quiz show on Radio Sierra Leone. A program called Lenin Soirées is reported to be "greatly popular with televiewers in Brazzaville," while in Paris, "thousands of excursionists" have visited the apartment on Rue Marie-Rose where Lenin once lived. Tass failed to note, however, that the Paris city council has just churlishly refused to rename the street in Lenin...
...every soirée at the Executive Mansion has been an unqualified wow. Singer Robert Goulet was loud and uneven before Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau; reaction was mixed to Songstress Peggy Lee's performance for French President Pompidou. One night during Prime Minister Harold Wilson's visit, a black limousine rolled up to the front portico at the appointed hour. The Army heralds were ready. Out trilled Rule, Britannia. Out of the limo stepped Spiro Agnew...