Word: alphand
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Couve (whose family dropped the aristocratic De Murville during the French Revolution, reassumed it later) obtained a degree in history and law at the University of Paris and graduated from the Ecole des Sciences Politiques, where he finished first in a class of 300; the second student was Herve Alphand, currently France's Ambassador to the U.S. He then studied for entrance into the corps of Inspecteurs des Finances, a superelite brain trust that admits only a handful of men to its ranks each year and produces some of France's top administrative talent. Its veterans form...
...word twice on the same day. In Paris, U.S. Ambassador Charles Bohlen was called to the Quai d'Orsay and informed of France's intention. In Washington, dapper French Ambassador Hervé Alphand gave the cold slap to Under Secretary of State Averell Harriman. The French government, said Alphand, considered it necessary "to fill the void" left by the Sino-Soviet dispute by accepting "the reality" of China...
...Your fine cover story on Nicole Alphand [Nov. 22] portrays a remarkable woman and a remarkable way of life, but it omitted a large facet of that life. Nicole Alphand has been directly responsible for several hundred thousands of dollars pouring into Washington charities' needy coffers. She has organized benefit balls, attended and sponsored countless luncheons and fashion shows, donated "specialties" from her chef and French products to bazaars, opened the embassy to paid tours (benefiting the Salvation Army and Good Will Industries). In addition, indirectly she and the ambassador are responsible for even more thousands of dollars...
...Madame Nicole Alphand is important enough to have her picture on the front cover of your magazine, and if your story about her and the other goings on in Washington is even partly true, heaven help this country! We have surely entered our decadent period, and we're in real trouble...
...occurs to me that so much chic and taste is absolutely vulgar. Judging from the TIME photos, Mme. Alphand appears to have reached the peak of human automation. Do the American officials in Washington all really fall for such Continental decadence and tinsel? It makes me feel I should come to the defense of my country. And a husband who kisses you on both cheeks if you're in and shakes your hand if you're out: really...