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Prices were shockingly high, although France had a group of "Vacation Villages" around the country in which a 10-ft.-square cabin and three meals a day cost only $1.50 to $1.80. For Lone-Star Staters, Southern France made frantic preparations for La Semaine du Texas, an eight-day week, when imported Neiman-Marcus models in ten-gallon hats will roam the ranges of the Riviera...
...strike! it urged the faithful, protest the jailing of Jacques Duclos! And incidentally, wheedled L'Humanité protest the jailing of the paper's own Editor Andre Stil! The big day was Wednesday, designated for a one-day strike of the Red-led C.G.T. (Confederation Generate du Travail), which used to have 6,000,000 members but now has only a third as many. Expecting an exemplary show of violence, L'Huma published medical advice on what to do for riot injuries, e.g., bleeding from the nose and ears, black eyes, head cuts...
ANDRÉ GIDE, French novelist who died last year at 81, author of The Counterfeiters, Les Caves du Vatican, Theseus, etc., one of the topflight literary figures of the 20th century. The official decree banning Gide's work did not give a reason, but the Vatican's L'Osservatore Romano offered an interpretation: "He lived as a nonChristian, even as a deliberate antiChristian. The taste for profanity . . . was carried by him to blasphemy . . . His art had a feeling of his lasciviousness . . . The work of Gide from beginning to end is all orchestrated on a tone of ambiguous...
...Force has tried to get private industry into developing aircraft armament, but with little success; businessmen are fearful of being tagged with the "merchants of death" stigma that haunted Du Pont for years. With Oerlikon's arrival, the Air Force hopes that other U.S. manufacturers will get into ordnance development and provide U.S. planes with the heavier firepower they need...
Died. Marie Odet Jean Armand de Chapelle de Jumilhac, 76, Due de Richelieu, the title conferred by Louis XIII on his Prime Minister, Cardinal Armand Jean du Plessis, who passed it on to a grandnephew, Jean de Vignerot, ancestor of the last Due de Richelieu; after a month's illness; in Manhattan...