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...pride was offended. French anger aroused. At the much feared debate on Indo-China, French Assemblymen had cried not for immediate surrender, but for more vigorous efforts to meet new Viet Minh attacks. The Cabinet itself reacted. It pledged itself to the defense of the whole Red River Delta. Marc Jacquet, an apostle of despair, was forced out. General Navarre was relieved, and General Paul Ely, France's Chief of Staff (see box), sent out to take full military and civilian command in Indo-China. Whether or not it fell in this week's debate, the French government...
Last week, in the uproar that followed, Marc Jacquet, Under Secretary for the Indo-China States, who had in the past slipped reports to Servan-Schreiber, resigned, and there was a shakeup in the French military high command (see FOREIGN NEWS). But last week L'Express was out again-and its circulation shot up by 13,000-to 115,000-and is still rising. Said Editor Servan-Schreiber happily: "The government really did us the best turn they possibly could...
...Time of the Fire by Marc Brandel (Random House; $3) is a workmanlike portrait of a small American town and its mass hysteria under the terror of a homicidal maniac. The terror and hysteria rise to a high boil when the remains of local women are found neatly decapitated and expertly carved. Before the killer gets his comeuppance, the frigid daughter of one of the town's leading citizens thaws herself out, and town and townsmen are brought to naked life with considerable psychological insight...
...shopping expedition near his Manhattan apartment, Pulitzer Prize-winning Playwright Marc (The Green Pastures) Connelly, 63, strolled past a, five-story tenement, was squarely conked on the head by an old, wicker-seat armchair that mysteriously dropped from the building's roof. After cops surmised that the armchair strategists were probably mischievous kids, Connelly snorted: "I always knew children were antisocial, but children on the West Side-they're savages...
...offered the season's one really individual musical. And the Phoenix's Golden Apple, like the Theatre de Lys' End As a Man, like the Circle in the Square's Girl on the Via Flaminia, went uptown in time to Broadway. Other off-Broadway successes: Marc Blitzstein's English version of Kurt Weill's Threepenny Opera, Leslie Stevens' Bullfight, and-after a late opening the season before-The World of Sholem Aleichem...