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...economic paralysis. French businessmen and unionists counted on him to talk some reason into De Gaulle. At present, France is losing funds at such a drastic rate-$300 million to $400 million a week-that its net reserves of some $5 billion in gold and currency will be imperiled within a few months unless the huge outflow of francs is somehow checked...
Couve is a unusual man in an unusual situation. He has neither a political following nor the flair for creating one. He does not even have any special clout within the Gaullist party. His power resides solely in his relationship with the man whom he serves-a fact that must please De Gaulle. Up to now, Couve has always acknowledged that he knew who was boss. "There are no problems between myself and the general," he once said. "If there were, my role would be to yield to him." But last week Couve hinted that he would stand...
Couve is a member of what the French call the H.S.P., for haute société protestante (Protestant high society), a powerful minority descended from the Huguenots within a predominantly Catholic country. The son of a Reims judge, he has excelled at whatever he undertook. He graduated first in a class of 300 at Paris' famed Ecole Libre des Sciences Politiques, passed with highest marks the examinations to become an inspecteur des finances in the French civil service. By 1940, at 33, he had become the Finance Ministry's director of foreign exchange, but he disliked serving...
...Saigon government found time for the trial even while girding for another Communist attack on the capital, thus underscoring its growing concern about the Alliance. It was formed toward the end of April in an immaculately kept old French plantation at Mimot, in the Cambodian Highlands northwest of Saigon. Within days, Liberation Radio, the voice of the Viet Cong, announced its formation, and Radio Hanoi said that Southern intellectuals, businessmen, even government officials and soldiers had met at Mimot. Congratulatory telegrams poured in from assorted Communist organizations around the world. North Vietnamese Negotiator Xuan Thuy mentioned the Alliance...
...second picture this year, the film version of Strindberg's macabre Dance of Death. All went well until the script called for him to launch into an energetic dance. Suddenly in midflight, he reeled back against a piece of furniture. Just a passing dizzy spell, said Olivier, and within 15 minutes he was back on the boards, cheerfully zipping through the dance, insisting, "I've never felt better in my life...