Word: bannerless
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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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...
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