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...Algerian National Assembly and one of France's most vocal supporters in North Africa (TIME. June 10), as he walked toward his car with Paris' director-general of police. In court last week 26-year-old Ben Sadok offered a highly literate defense (his favorite authors: Stendhal, Victor Hugo, Holland. Sartre, Camus). He denied that he had any connection with the rebellious Algerian F.L.N., explained that he had decided on murder the day Chekkal joined the French delegation to the United Nations: "I didn't have anything against him personally, or against his opinions, because...
...literature lifted the highbrows' eyebrows. Though aired by Manhattan's WCBS-TV at the brain-taxing hour of 6:30 a.m., Assistant Professor Floyd Zulli Jr.'s Sunrise Semester started a rush in the city's bookshops for the first volume on his reading list: Stendhal's The Red and the Black. Some sleepy viewers garbled it a bit, asked for The Black and Blue or "that book by Stan Hall," but one publisher alone supplied 2,600 copies to dealers in four days without slaking the demand. Said a book buyer...
...land he loved and lost; an exception is Henri Troyat. Although he has lived in France since he was nine, he has woven-out of legend, memory, research and love-a valedictory tale of Russia's "former people," whose liquidation began in November 1917. The title evokes Stendhal's The Red and the Black, but this tale of class war and peace more nearly recalls the scope and ambition (if not the genius) of Tolstoy...
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...presenting Premier Guy Mollet with the complete works of famed French Author Stendhal last week, members of the French government did more than celebrate Mollet's first year* in office. They underlined a noteworthy fact: Socialist Mollet (who has survived 32 votes of confidence in the Chamber of Deputies) continues to be Premier because the vast majority of Frenchmen and their deputies support his Algerian policy, which might be defined as a policy of the right enforced by a man of the left...