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Independent Republicans (R.I.) Leader: Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, 42 Seats: 43 Candidates...
...best-known film, The Chelsea Girls-it earned $500,000-shows its huge-eyed heroines disporting in kaleidoscopic perversity; in I, a Man, one droll scene shows a pea-jacketed lesbian sneeringly turning down the tomcat antihero. Playing the lesbian in that film was Val Solanas, 28, who last year formed the Society for Cutting Up Men. Her S.C.U.M. manifesto begins: "Life in this society being at best an utter bore and no aspect of society being at all relevant to women, there remains to civic-minded, responsible, thrill-seeking females only to overthrow the government, eliminate the money system...
Last week Val was as bad as her word. She strode into The Factory, pulled out a .32-cal automatic and pumped a shot into Warhol's chest. As he fought for life in a hospital, pals insisted that he had not brought it on himself. "Violence is everywhere in the air today," said Ultra Violet. "He got hurt in the big game of reality...
Forcing a Polarization. On the center-right is De Gaulle's party, the Union for the Defense of the Republic. Once again, it is allied with the Independent Republicans of former Gaullist Finance Minister Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, and on the first ballot, the two parties will support the same candidate in most-though not all -constituencies...
Skiing has been Killy's life ever since his father, descendant of an Irish mercenary who fought for Napoleon (the family name originally was Kelly), opted for the quiet life in 1946 and moved his family from Paris to Val d'Isere, 6,037 ft. up in the French Alps. Jean-Claude was then three; within a year, he was a familiar figure, with baggy pants and a runny nose, on the slopes outside town. "I would carry my skis to school and rest them against the wall so I could ski at lunchtime," he says. "On Thursday...