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Under the Surface. Although the Constituent Assembly voted 440-to-106 for the new constitution, its last session demonstrated that the unity of the majority was no more than skin deep. The majority hoped to demonstrate its solidarity by greeting the vote with a Vive la France, singing the Marseillaise and decorously adjourning. But a single muttered sentence wrecked that hope, and sent the Assembly into a near riot...
...blue and rose appointments of London's newest and most expensive nightclub, the "Orchid Room," a middle-aged Briton swayed slightly in his chair, comfortably close to a bucket of champagne. From time to time he would wave vaguely at a French girl warbling seductively in the spotlight. "Vive la France!" he pronounced with dignity, "Vive la France...
...Vincent, was having a time with the Manhattan newspapers. They were breaking out all over with photos of a symmetrical 18-year-old girl in suburban Philadelphia, and stuff about her heartbreak. The girl, Virginia Jacobs, called him "Jackims." He was supposed to have had her on the qui vive since she was 15, but now she could not find him. She said he had talked of marrying her and "going to Paris, where we'd have lots of children" -that is, if he ever got a divorce from Wife No. 2. He had been just too extravagant, Virginia...
...presidential candidate, promised the blacks the houses, cars and mistresses of the elite. When he visited poor black quarters, hordes of men, women & children in various states of undress pressed about his car, climbed on to it, beat voodoo rhythms on the fenders, danced and tumbled in ecstasy, roared: "Vive Fignol...
Other echoes of Red Army sabers rattled through Europe. From Paris, the New York Times's chief foreign correspondent Cyrus Leo Sulzberger reported that "certain [Red Army] units" around Trieste and in southeastern Germany had "been put on the qui vive." Next day, the Times's chief military analyst Hanson Weightman Baldwin mildly pooh-poohed such rumors, declared that the Red Army was demobilizing. His estimate of remaining occupation forces: 2,000,000 plus...