Word: blancs
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...flags, designating which country is host and which is guest, has been reversed. There is the vague feeling in the banquet hall that everybody has been part of some gigantic hoax, or maybe not quite that, but some kind of staging. After the popping of champagne corks (Schramsberg Blanc de Blancs, a scarce California label), Nixon gives a commercial for television but no revelation...
There was an answering bonfire from Cap Blanc-Nez near Calais, and French President Georges Pompidou warmly avowed that the vote was "proof that this time the Common Market is truly irreversible." But not many Frenchmen were that fervent. While the rest of Europe watched an hour-long special program on the Commons vote, France's state-run television disposed of the news in 30 seconds. The Belgians were probably most enthusiastic, as they had been all along. When they built the EEC headquarters in Brussels three years ago, they planted not six flagstaff's in front...
...most of the volunteers reported favorably on their activities. This attitude was reflected by the coordinator of the canvass project, Doreen Blanc...
...Miss Blanc, who resides in Cambridge and works as a consultant at Tufts University, estimated that 1500 volunteers showed up and that only half of those were students, the other half being community people. The good-looking red-haired coordinator called the response "overwhelming...
Although the canvass stayed in Cambridge this time, Miss Blanc hopes that in November volunteers will go to other working class areas because she feels "Cambridge has reached the saturation point...