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...story of this gentlest of war films is true, or so its producers claim: a French soldier working in a German prison farm escapes, making himself invisible by carrying a bucket and borrowing a cow, a two-tone job with fetching eyelashes. The two set out for the French border 400 miles away. The arrangement works beautifully; Marguerite feeds Fernandel when he is hungry, and he tells stories to her when she is bored. The Germans never tumble. Eventually they reach the Rhine, and by this time Fernandel and Marguerite are in love. All the bridges have been bombed...
...present King habitually refers to the threat from the north not as the Communist but as "the Annamese problem." About 1700, Laos split into three kingdoms, run by rival royalty, and it was still split two centuries later when the French, the last and by all odds the gentlest of the conquerors, arrived in 1893, seeking a buffer state against Siam and British Burma. The French looked around and proclaimed Laos living proof of Rousseau's theories about the noble savage...
...barracks crying: "Here is the great officer Ali Hamid." This time President Abboud's patience was at an end. Last week Ali Hamid and four of his accomplices were hanged at Khartoum prison-the first casualties, after one year and 15 days, of the Middle East's gentlest revolution...
...months since he took over from George Magoffin Humphrey as Treasury Secretary, Anderson has proved himself a man of iron determination, but he softens its rub with the gentlest velvet glove in Washington. He may well be the most unanimously admired man in the capital. A Democratic Representative who has clashed with him on economic policies freely concedes that he is a "very great American." A fellow Cabinet officer whose department has felt the paining pinch of Anderson's insistence on balanced budgets calls him "one of the very ablest men in public life during the past 20 years...
...General Electric, and dozens of other big firms that knew a good idea when they saw one. Seldom was the approach consistent: some companies concentrated on the soft sell, others pitched high and hard. Last season's Oldsmobile take-off on Broadway's Good News was the gentlest of kisses-and entertaining theater to boot. The songs were subtle, the plot made humorous sense, the verve of the Broadway original was still there. But this year's trend, possibly reflecting tougher competition, is more toward the hard sell. The 1960 Olds version, like the Buick show, hollers...