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...Wild Oat (Carroll Pictures) is a baby boy, sown by a French soldier and reaped by a village belle of Provence. This wild oat is somewhat distinguished from the others in France's ever-normal granary by Fernandel, France's top comedian, playing the illegitimate tyke's paternal grandpa. As the headstrong village baker, Fernandel is volubly insistent that his son would never do such a thing, refuses to recognize the infant as a descendant...
...Touch us not. Leave us in peace. We own that which is astray. The lost is our property. It is a large and remarkable property. It faces the stars, the woods and the seas, the roaming waves and the wind-sown flowers...
Income from Conservation. From the total 356,250,000 U.S. acres now sown to non-sod crops, the soil-bank plan would take 16 million out of production in the first twelve months of a 15-year, $1.4 billion program aimed at eliminating 23 million acres. An eventual total of 1,000,000 U.S. farmers would be paid up to $5,000 a year, get $15-$20 an acre for cover-crop seeds, plus annual payments of 5%-7% of the appraised value of the land they convert...
...very first rounds of Pont-l'Evéque prison, Warden Billa found a kindred spirit in René Grainville, a forger and car thief. "You know," René told him, "I'm only here because of wild oats sown in my youth. I'm really a poet, and I've written several novels." Billa was fascinated. "You," Billa said at last, "are obviously misplaced. I appoint you prison accountant...
Fateful Date. The seeds of revolt had been sown over 43 years of French insensitivity to the political and spiritual longings of North Africa's Arab peoples. France gave North Africa roads, hospitals and the works of Voltaire, but not the political liberty it demanded. The spark that ignited the violence was struck one day last week. It came on La Date Fatidique (literally, the fateful date...