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...Unfit Islanders. In De Gaulle's Europe, France is first, Germany second, and the rest nowhere-they can tag along respectfully as camp followers, with little more weight or voice than tiny Luxembourg. Britain is rejected as unfit economically or politically to join this band of continental brothers because it 1) is an offshore island, and 2) has "special ties" with the U.S. and the Commonwealth. To De Gaulle's jaundiced eye. the British attempt to enter the Common Market was simply a Trojan horse maneuver (an expression used with suspicious frequency in Parisian editorials and salons last...
...that women are "losing their femininity." Actually, he argued, femininity is a matter of fashion: "In some cultures women have done hard labor, while in others they have been thought of as fragile and weak. Sometimes they have been priestesses, but elsewhere they have been thought unclean and unfit for priestly duties . . . The moral is that what will offend, anger, or alarm a man in woman in one society, will in another seem to be right, natural, and inevitable-and therefore feminine and attractive...
...European nuclear force. De Gaulle recalled Britain's refusal to participate in the Common Market when it was abuilding, and charged that London had even tried to destroy the organization by setting up the rival Outer Seven. With obvious relish, De Gaulle explained why he thought Britain was unfit for partnership...
...would be violating Article 2357 of canon law. So long as Italian and church law block Producer Carlo Ponti's divorce from his present wife-and his marriage to Sophia-she is living in "public concubinage" in the eyes of the Roman Catholic Church, and is thereby unfit for godmotherhood. Sighed Sophia: "It was one of the happiest events of my life. In any case. I am the child's godmother and proud...
Leverett, 6-0, is idle until its November 14 showdown with the Elephants, but faces the problem of replacing its starting quarterback, Tim Casgar. Casgar was knocked out of the Dunster game last week with a head injury, and has been ruled unfit for the rest of the season. Despite this loss, the Bunnies had an easy time with Kirkland Thursday, as they scored a convincing...