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Then there is SEXPOFF [Societe pour I'Exportation du Franc Franfais], a subversive movement to which all Amer icans in France automatically belong if they change francs into dollars, thereby reducing De Gaulle's ability to buy up Fort Knox. But sticklers over niceties now ponder whether those who reciprocate the nastiness of De Gaulle, whose character combines le Roi Soleil and De Lawd, are guilty of lese-majeste or sacrilege...
Jersey has a lot of big company on the international scene, including such other U.S. firms as G.M., Ford, Chrysler, General Electric, IBM, ITT, Union Carbide, Du Pont, 3M, Kodak, Texaco, UniRoyal, Mobil, Boeing, Pfizer, Olin Mathieson and Corn Products Co. Together, they are rocking the world. Their globalization is an inevitable showdown between modern technology and old-style nationalism. Technology is an odds-on favorite...
...du Pont de Nemours & Co., the world's largest chemical firm, last week named the twelfth president in its 165-year history. He succeeds Lammot du Pont Copeland, 62, who moves up to chairman. While he becomes only the second president from outside the Du Pont family, Charles Brelsford ("Brel") McCoy, 58, hardly ranks as an interloper. Son of a onetime Du Pont vice president, McCoy has two sons and a brother working for the com pany, and his sister Anne is married to Du Pont Secretary Henry T. Bush. An other brother is Landscape Painter John McCoy...
...Frenchmen do not believe that, and the reason for their disbelief is that someone has indeed made book of De Gaulle's sayings over the years. The book is La Tragedie du General, now the No. 1 bestseller in France, and its author is Paris-Match Political Editor Jean-Raymond Tournoux, who conducted more than 1,000 interviews with several hundred people who had talked with De Gaulle over a period of 20 years. In a recent Paris-Match article, Tournoux quoted De Gaulle as saying: "England-I want her in the nude," meaning shorn of all economic...
...worth of machinery functions elaborately to put skin on baloney." There is still plenty of machinery out there putting skin on baloney. But the most important fact about the screen in 1967 is that Hollywood has at long last become part of what the French film journal Cahiers du Cinema calls" the furious springtime of world cin ema," and is producing a new kind of movie...