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“You'll be all right if you don't talk' to strange submarines, keep away from the Russian coastline and watch out for Polaris missiles."

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"I hope the State Department realises what a job it's going to be searching for those two missing secrets men in Cubal"

"I don't want to over excite you, my boy, but fime shillings for the Church Roof Restoration Fund are

on his nose."

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Paris Newsletter

Paris.

THIS is the first time I

have watched the annual exodus of the Parisians on holiday. And even though one has read about it, it is still a fantastic experi- ence to see a million people leave the city on holiday.

For example, my grocers has just closed down. The local cafe will be shut as you read this. It is as if this cily dies for a menti.

The only exception is the fourist quarter round the Champs Elysees.

FROM

DONALD EDGAR

FANTASTIC, TO SEE

A CITY DIE...

Then there beemed to be a reconciliation And Annette, who is very much like Brigitte There you scarcely hear a

Bardot who was engaged to word of French spoken. But it Sacha after her marriage to is interesting that there are Vadim - west back to her considerably

English husband. imver people this year, either here in Paris or in South of France.

Some people are saying that

But now there seems to be another quarrel and Sacha and Annette have been seen around it is because England had such in the South of France together

A wonderful summer last year with Barbara Wamer and that people are remaining al Secha's pianist,

home.

Senechal.

Raymond 1c

Sacha, who is the dream boy of the young girls of France, said: "I cannot make any state- ment, as Annette is not divorced

Hundreds of tons of the been about politics - it might succulent vegetable were burned, have been about women i But some of the other might have been about Inter- growers were a bit tougher, ture, especially in Brittany,

They hired lorries, filled them with artichokes and brought them to Paris.

But now, with the banging or the balls of the pin tables and music of Juke boxes It is almost impossible to talk about any thing.

In recent weeks it has been a famillar sight to see robust These pin-tables have special Breign women selling artichokes farcination for Parisian men. in the street.

As soon as anybody plays

ond Still, though French women everybody gathers round may be good cooks they can't as the Rights on and off and

everything with do

just the balls go up and down there is the same sort of professional tomatoes and artichokes.

talk as you will get at Lord's Tavern over a stroke or a ball. In fact, you could say that "Les flippers"-the things you alp to keep the ball in play- arc more discussed in Paris than the situation in Algeria,

But I think it may well be that the stiffer altitude of bank managers, may well have some-

Prices generally are rising thing to do with it.

rapidly, and I think, after the Camping continues 10 get

to keep her holidays, General de Gaulle is more and more popular here, and she wants

If she daughter.

did get a going to face considerable dis-

a crisis, over the cost of living.

They estimate that five million divorce I would marry her. Į satisfaction, perhaps, even will be staying in camps which love her passionately"

range from just a tent in a Beid

to elaborate places where there

is fresh water, sanitary arrange- ments and restaurants.

A quarrel?

A glut

NOR those of us left in Paris

there are still items of in terest. There is, for example, HERE is another chapter in the Baille of the Artichokes the story of Sacha Distel, There has been a glut of them France's most famous crooner this year just as there has and Annette Strøyberg, the been a glut of tomatoes. wife of Roger Vadim, France's But the artichokes have really most famous film producer. caused trouble. The Halles

Vadim has already accused the equivalent of Covent Garden Sacha of being a home breaker. refused to take any more from There were

angry recrimina- the growers because they want- tions in public.

ed to keep the price up.

«No'talk'

Not now?

WAY from vegetable one of

most well-known doesn't look now as if the the

Duke of Bedford will marry figures in Paris is a man whom everyone talks of in the cafes. Nicole Millinair, the French but whom nobody has seen. television producer, in France The arrangement He is Mr Gottileb, of Chicago, after all. who makes

was to have the pin-tables was that he which, in the Inst few years, married her at Ronquerolles. have, with the juke boxes, But he has discovered that

the cafe transformed

life of so much paper work is involved Paris.

that it would take him three months to arrange it all.

In the old days people really did talk in cafest might have

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