France panorama. [No. 68/16]

Description: French cinemagazine items including: 1. Dam across the Ain River - A wall of concrete, over a million and a half cubic feet of it, now stretches across the valley of the Ain in the Jura. Water has begun fillin an immense reservoir which will form a lake of some 600 square miles in area. 2. At the Elysee Palace - the Prime Minister of Lybia was received by General de Gaulle at the Elysee Palace. 3. Speaking of transplants - At Lyons, Doctor Marius Barnard and Doctor Botha - the brother and the assistant of the man to make the first successful heart transplant - visited the Pasteur Institute. 4. Rene Leduc: aviation wizard - Rene Leduc, one of the pioneers in supersonic aviation, inventor of state-reactor engine capable of speeds of over a thousand miles an hour, dies. 5. A pavillion in Osaka - Chosen in an open competition, France’s pavillion at the Japanese World Fair will be inflatable. 6. An artist named Brassai - Brassai, famous for his photographs, proves to


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