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Over Marignarie, France, Mrs. Jacqueline Auriol, daughter-in-law of France's President Auriol. piloted a jet Mistral 76 to a new women's world speed record of 534.92 m.p.h., bettering her own former record of 508.09 m.p.h., set last year...
When the Faure cabinet fell last February, Pinay trotted off as usual to the Gare de Lyon. He was on the way back from St. Chamond a few days later when a messenger clambered into his compartment at Dijon with President Auriol's invitation to take a fling at forming a government. He had the brashness...
...President of France, the usually equable Vincent Auriol, was almost in tears. "Messieurs, les Ambassadeurs," he cried, before a French audience gathered last week for the opening of the Rhone Valley's Donzere-Mondragon dam, built with the help of $33 million from the U.S. Addressing himself directly to the assembled foreign diplomatic corps, which included the U.S.'s James C. Dunn, Auriol launched into an emotional refutation of recent U.S. criticism of France...
...Auriol's tears, trickling into the muddy current of French opinion, were one of a number of streams which together seemed last week to be washing at the foundation of European unity against Communist aggression. Foremost were Speaker Edouard Herriot's declared opposition to the European Defense Community and Premier Antoine Pinay's tacit approval of Herriot's position (he knew what Herriot was going to say and did nothing to change it). After all, the whole idea of EDC was a cumbersome attempt to quiet French fears of German rearmament; now it looked...
Black limousines whisked French President Vincent Auriol and his glittering guests from Paris out to the 1,500-acre estate around the presidential chateau at Rambouillet. The party took their places at the butts, waited while beaters waving red & white flags drove 9,000 pheasants into the morning air. Then the firing started. After four sweeps, the shooting party moved on to an artificial lake where white-jacketed gamesmen dragged roped bells across the water, sending about 100 wild ducks aloft. The guns went off again. Some of the high scorers of the day: Prince Bernhard of The Netherlands...