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...French press hailed the summit as the largest gathering of political notables since the 1919 peace conference that produced the Treaty of Versailles; but the Champs-Elysées remained bannerless and unfestive beneath a brilliant autumn sky. As delegates began to arrive at the spruced-up Hotel Majestic, from which the Viet Nam peace negotiators had been temporarily evicted, 1,500 uniformed policemen lined the nearby streets; plainclothesmen huddled in elegant doorways looking for all the world like pimps for the fun girls of Montmartre...
...ceremonial duties. "I would not, for instance, be at all interested in writing a poem about Britain's entry into the economic market, or whatever it is. I want to write about such wonderful things as bees on ivy leaves and the golden light of a beautiful autumn evening...
Even a hero in his one-thousandth autumn Occasionally must still muster his courage...
...than skeptical about decision-making as far away from the grass-roots as Oslo. They had to defend an administrative structure in Brussels which decidedly is not democratic. They were compromised again and again by the interpretations in Norway of such routine EC dynamics as the jousting over this autumn's summit meeting and M. Pompidou's statement a week before the Norwegian referendum advocating the eventual membership of totalitarian Spain in the Market...
Working with projections from his subsidiary managers, Ling as late as the autumn of 1969 had been led to believe that LTV year-end earnings would be $40 million or more; they came out at just $2,000,000-a miscalculation of 2,000%. "The terrible surprise," says Brown in an almost comic understatement, "had to be the result of his subsidiary managers either lying to him or not knowing how poorly they were doing, or both...