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...Marseillaise and a battery of antiaircraft cannon boomed 21 times-so loud and near that bystanders felt the breath of the guns. The honor guard was resplendent in grey, gold and red, and their rifle butts hit the ground with such popping precision that De Gaulle winced involuntarily. "Vive la France!" cried the thousand "workers" assembled to greet De Gaulle as he plunged among them shaking hands...
...everyone was ready to join the Union. The Barber of Seville went smoothly enough, though Soprano Roberta Peters as Rosina was in woefully bad voice. At the end of one of her arias, someone shouted "Vive la Callas!"; Merrill, Corena and the 38-piece orchestra under Thomas Schippers got the most enthusiastic applause...
...well-organized advertising campaign depicted him as the youthful symbol of France's future, a kind of French Kennedy ("John Fitzgerald Lecanuet," sneered the Gaullists). His toothsome telegenicity seemed to grow with each appearance on television, though he began the campaign a virtually unknown Senator. His theme was vive the Common Market, vive united Europe, vive NATO. It won the rare endorsement of "Mr. Europe" himself, Jean Monnet...
Congolese bearing signs such as "Vive le Congo Brazzaville" and "Down with Neo-Colonialism...
...poplars and blue-legged gendarmes. In village after village, De Gaulle repeated the tried and true routine: a ritual exchange with the awed mayor, a Lyndon-like lunge into the thicket of outstretched hands, a brief utterance from the bunting-draped platform, then the Marseillaise and a hearty "Vive la France...