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...nation's regimes from the Revolution to the Restoration. He finally retired in 1816, and no French leader since then has been able to disentangle the mysterious, proliferating networks-within-net-works of French security agencies. Today France has no fewer than a dozen, ranging from the trench-coated men from S.D.E.C.E. (Service de Documentation Extérieure et Contre-Espionnage) to the blue-frocked flics. So, when friendly intelligence agents from another country ask French help in getting their man, there is always someone in Paris to oblige...
...London's Hyde Park Corner. Searching out the details of the brave soldiers on the stone frieze, it leads to the words carved along one side: A ROYAL FELLOWSHIP-the camera turns the corner-OF DEATH. The scene shifts to a tangle of barbed wire, the detritus of trench warfare, the corpses of trees and, half-buried in the churned and muddy ground, the corpses of men. One of them slowly comes alive-he is a soldier lying, now, on his bunk, playing a mouth organ...
...system was developed last year by Puget Sound Power & Light Co., with a boost from the Pacific Northwest Bell Telephone Co. It buries everything, including transformers, which are submerged in deep, grate-covered pits. Thanks to newly developed, highly insulated coverings, the cables can be dropped into machine-dug trenches without the cumbersome metal casings of previous systems. And the telephone company can put its lines in the same trench, cutting costs even further...
...stand in a fortified village, catching a company of U.S. paratroopers under crossfire with two machine guns. The Americans took out one gun with rifle grenades, then charged the second. The Reds broke and ran, dragging bodies with them through their escape tunnels. "There was blood all over that trench," said an American first lieutenant. "We figured we killed about 16, and their total casualties must have been close...
From Park Avenue to Pensacola, girls are wrapping themselves in the oilcloth look. The fashion house of Originala adopted it for a $200 trench coat, and fashion firms in the $30 to $75 range are now coming in strong on the vinyl boom...