Word: ajaccio
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...French Government suddenly was made to realize that the old French operettas were right: Corsica is full of bandits. The immediate occasion was when a grizzled bandit chief named Caviglioli raided the new hotels at Guagno les Bains, Corsica's latest resort, and shot dead a garage keeper from Ajaccio who had popped his head, cuckoo-clock wise, out of his window and shrilled for help (TIME, Sept...
Curiosity was too much for one guest, a wealthy garage keeper from Ajaccio. Like a cuckoo in a clock he flung wide his shutters, popped out his head, shrilly screamed for help. One pistol cracked. Ajaccio's cuckoo dropped with a bullet through the heart...
...overdramatic. The skies were fulgurant. Detonations of thunder echoed hollowly and mysteriously through the corridors of St. Peter's. The question of infallibility was put to the Council and 535 voted placet; 2 voted non placet. The dissenters were the Bishop of Little Rock, Ark., and the Bishop of Ajaccio, Corsica (where the first Napoleon was born). The question was put again and 537 voted placet...
France also leads in air transport. According to Stéphane Lausanne, of Le Matin, France now has eight active air lines, six radiating from Paris to London, Amsterdam, Bucharest, Warsaw, Geneva, Marseilles, one from Antibes to Ajaccio (Corsica), one across the Mediterranean from Toulouse to Casablanca in Morocco. England can boast of only three or four lines to the Continent...