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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Officially, Soustelle is Minister Delegate to the Premier, with four responsibilities-the Sahara, atomic energy ("but not the bomb"), overseas territories and overseas departments-but he prefers to be known by his unofficial title, Minister of the Sahara. A solidly built, wavy-haired man with blandly skeptical eyes half-hidden behind owlish glasses, Soustelle calls himself "a typical Frenchman," and in some respects looks the part. But at various times in his meteoric career this tough, confident and shrewd man has been described as "the Molotov of Gaullism," "Jacques the Wrecker," "the Big Alley Cat," "a born secret policeman...
...Fourth Republic's disintegrating government slapped a 24-hour-a-day police guard on Soustelle. Grinning as he displays his knowledge of underworld argot, Soustelle recalls: "I decided to take a powder." With the professional expertise of the old spy master, Soustelle slipped out of his Paris apartment hidden under a pile of luggage in a neighbor's car and crossed the border to Switzerland ("Of course, I had a false identity"). Two days later he was in Algiers, whipping up the crowd with shouts of "Vive De Gaulle!" and working behind the scenes to ensure that...
...articulate on film some notions that fascinated the author: "I wanted to discover, for myself, what happened to a man who was no longer himself. Would he, assuming the identity of another, take on the sins and the burdens and the emotions of the [other] or would his own hidden secret self become released in the other's image and so take charge...
...examined by doctors before being locked up. but he produced a small, coiled-spring saw and a can opener to cut through the zinc floor of his cage; they were passed to him, mouth to mouth, when his wife kissed him in tearful "farewell" before the carette was hidden in the corner of the prison yard. Doctors who examined him later did not find the "gaffs." An old carny hand had taught Houdini the trick of retroperistal-sis-swallowing small objects, stopping them halfway down the esophagus and spitting them up at leisure...
...stood on the carpet's edges to prove that it stayed in place and did not hide a trap door. (There actually was a trap door. When it was opened, the carpet sagged, despite the volunteers, and Houdini inched beneath the wall. This part of the act was hidden from both volunteers and audience by a screen.) He was soldered into a coffin made of galvanized iron and dunked in a swimming pool for an hour and a half. (Skeptics insisted that he had chemicals in the coffin to absorb carbon dioxide. But Houdini simply knew what turn...