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Education: honor student at Paris' Ecole Libre des Sciences Politiques; served six months in the army during World War II, and another six months chopping trees in the Chantiers de Jeunesse, Pétain's version of the Hitler Youth. Joined the Resistance, preparing schemes for economic harassment of the Germans; at 23 got the year's highest grades in competitive exams for appointment to the elite corps of Inspecteurs des Finances, a backstage group that furnishes France with many of her top diplomats, financiers and civil servants...
...devilishly dangle is nice, And to utter "It's me," my advice. For "Am I Not," I say "Ain't I," "It is not I," say " 'Tain't I," But my diction is clipped and precise...
...never get far from the Iron Cur tain, it seems," said Bell. "I covered it in Korea, from Greece, Turkey and Iran, and from Eastern Europe from 1954 until last Christmas Eve. Now I'm back to the bamboo variety...
...flows down from the north in caravans of 20 to 50 Russian gas trucks to sell for a giveaway 25? a gallon in Kabul. Exports (furs, fruit, carpets) that used to stop and go at the Khyber Pass with every Pakistani whim now travel north to more cer tain Soviet markets. U.S. officials estimate that there are already several thousand Soviet do-gooders spreading their blessings in Afghanistan. Last week Kabul's only modern hotel was jammed with members of the 200-man Russian delegation to the city's international trade fair (the U.S. sent three representatives...
...then, Alphonse Juin was always a man of stormy views. The son of a French policeman in Algeria, Soldier Juin followed his profession with vigorous abandon from the moment of his graduation from Saint Cyr, declaring war on virtually everybody who opposed him. Cleaving first to Pétain after the fall of France in World War II, he later switched to the Allied side and became the able battlefield commander of the Free French forces in Italy. As the only living Marshal of France in 1952, he publicly blamed the United States for France's troubles in North...