Word: apres
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Rare Admission. Charles de Gaulle, at 77, seldom acknowledges any intimations of mortality. But last week he wound up his press conference with the rare admission that "there is always an end to everything. Everyone comes to an end." The advent of the era of aprés-De Gaulle, he said, "could be this evening, in six months' time, or in one year. Or it could be in five years, since that, according to the constitution, is when the mandate entrusted to me expires. And if I wanted to make some people laugh, or others groan, I could...
...larger stake in the aprés-De Gaulle era than Georges Jean Raymond Pompidou, 56, the onetime professor of literature and investment banker whom De Gaulle thrust untutored into French politics as his premier in 1962. The only man in his Cabinet that the general deigns to call by his first name (everyone else, both friend and foe, refers to the premier as "Pompon"), the bushy-browed Pompidou has long been De Gaulle's unspoken choice to succeed him. De Gaulle would never, of course, detract from his own image as France's absolute ruler by openly...
...Iran. And every two weeks he invites the most important Gaullist Deputies to his office at the Hotel Matignon for strategy sessions, laying the foundation for the day when they will possibly be his to command. No one knows for certain in what direction Pompidou would take the Gaullists aprés-De Gaulle. But, having so long followed in the steps of the master, he may find it difficult to break the habit...
...Cuban Stallion. The nature of après-ski activity varies. With its deep and demanding powder and precipitous runs, Alta draws only serious skiers, and the night life is consequently restrained...
...drinks in the lounge of the Alta Lodge, some folk songs by Chef Ray Conrad. In Vermont, après-ski is livelier, with apparently inexhaustible crowds carrying on until 1 a.m. at such swinging spots as the Red Rob Inn at Killington, Orsini's new Red Barn at Sugarbush, and Stowe's Baggy Knees...