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President and Mme. Vincent Auriol cast their ballots in downtown Paris amid the pop of photographers' flashbulbs, then hustled off to the Auteuil horse races. Grey-suited De Gaulle, as dour as usual, voted in a schoolhouse in his home village of Colombey-les-deux-Eglises. Premier Henri Queuille, symbol of the Third Force, voted before TV and newsreel cameras in his constituency in central France, then flew back to Paris to watch the count...
...election campaign hardly changed in the homestretch. Most meetings were humdrum, badly attended, polite. There were only a few brawls. In Nice, Communists and Gaullists clashed in a gun fight: three Communists were wounded. In Paris, leftists and Gaullists broke up a meeting of followers of former Marshal Henri Philippe Pétain who were campaigning for his release...
After the polls closed, first results flickered across luminous screens along the Champs Elysées. Parisians sat in their sidewalk cafés, totting up figures. Radical Premier Henri Queuille stayed up until long past midnight, finally went to bed saying: "As for me, I'm not worried." He was re-elected in his own district...
Third Force, boxed between the Communists and Gaullists, the coalition of Socialists, Radicals (and affiliated groups) and Catholic Popular Republicans (M.R.P.) that has dragged along rather than governed France since 1947. Leading lights: Henri Queuille (Radical), 66, quiet, able, onetime doctor who managed to stay Premier for 13 months, longer than anyone else in the Fourth Republic; Robert Schuman (M.R.P.), 64, ex-Foreign Minister, statesmanlike advocate of reconciliation with Germany, author of the Schuman Plan. The Third Force platform: defense of the Republic and antiCommunism, but all in moderation...
Paris' Museum of Modern Art was as full of cheerful curves as a tank of porpoises. Reason: a big show of the ballooning sculptures of 66-year-old French Sculptor Henri Laurens. Laurens, a sculptor in a generation noted mainly for its painters, is little known outside his own set, which includes School-of-Paris Veterans Picasso, Braque and Leger. But his big bulging nudes last week earned him plaudits from critics as the greatest of living French sculptors...