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...lines fly basically the same planes with the same equipment in the same time over the same routes, each airline is somehow distinctly and deliciously different. The sky's the limit for any frill or frippery, from gourmet menus to miniskirted hostesses, that will make the passenger exclaim, "Vive la difference...
...pity that other television programs of the new season cannot measure up to Mrs. Child's delightful charm and instruction. Mrs. Child's innate knack for comedy is the best deadpan act since the silent movies. Vive la Child, to say nothing of bon appetit...
...avuncular speech in Coconut Square. Then he touched down at the curious condominium of New Hebrides, jointly run since 1906 by the French and the British. French officials in crisp kepis stood side by side with their British counterparts in pith helmets as De Gaulle, without a flinch, cried: "Vive la France, Vive le Royaume...
...Gaulle's gracious reply came in the huge Olympic Stadium in Pnompenh. After 1,000 monks had chanted prayers for him, and 100,000 well-drilled Cambodians dressed in reds, whites, blues and greens had staged a kind of half-time football series of tableaux forming the words Vive la France with French and Cambodian flags and Vive De Gaulle with placards, the general took the rostrum. Bordering as it does on Viet Nam, Cambodia was a good place to amplify a message meant...
...Foreign Legion detachment snapped to the garde-à-vous, and a thin line of civilians and dignitaries cheered and waved the Tricolor. But then things came apart. The crowds that lined Avenue 13 on De Gaulle's motorcade route were screaming for freedom, carrying banners demanding "Independence totale," "Vive la liberte," and in English, "French, go home." When the motorcade had passed, the demonstrators started throwing rocks at the legionnaires, rioted for four hours before they got tired and went home. Next day the riots erupted anew, bringing hundreds of steel-helmeted troops and cops into the streets...