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...Jean Vergnes, former Le Pavilion Chef Pierre Franey, La Caravelle Chef Roger Fessaguet, and Jacques Pépin, former chef to Charles de Gaulle. On the beach, the fivesome whipped up a little barbecue that featured poached striped bass, grilled squabs and lobster farci, plus a bluefish au vin blanc. Inevitably, the recipes used found their way into his column...
...Romans, always alert to omens and portents, would never have gone through with the ceremony. A tremendous mountain storm sent vengeful bolts of lightning slashing across the slopes of Mont Blanc, and their thunderclaps shook the valleys below. The helicopter bearing Charles de Gaulle had to grope its way in heavy fog through the pass to Chamonix, and a nagging rain dropped a chill...
None of the political problems, however, could obscure the very real triumph that the day was meant to observe. The two-lane Mont Blanc tunnel, air-conditioned and equipped with ultramodern radar traffic control, will shorten the road between Paris and Rome by 125 miles-even more when the long winter snows close the Alpine passes. It is expected to be used by at least 1.2 million vehicles a year, each of which will pay tolls ranging from $3.25 (for a small European car) to $20 (for a bus). Just before its Italian entrance, a proud new road sign told...
...base town of Zermatt when none other than Italy's Walter Bonatti turned up last week to try a Matterhorn ascent. Bonatti, 34, is one of the best-known mountain climbers in the world -the handsome, brooding hero of a dramatic rescue on France's Mont Blanc, the youngest member of the triumphant Himalayan expedition up K2 in 1954, the fellow who in 1955 spent six days and five nights alone clawing his way up sheer rock and ice to become the only man ever to conquer Mont Blanc's Aiguille du Dru singlehanded...
...commission is partly financed by the Ford Foundation, but largely out of the pockets of its own members, such as the chief justices of countries as diverse as Nigeria and Norway. At commission headquarters at 2 Rue du Cheval-Blanc in suburban Geneva, a staff of 35 hustles to publish not only the Bulletin but also the Journal and the Newsletter, with a combined circulation of 400,000 copies in four languages (English, French, German, Spanish). Paid only bare expenses, teams of jurists are dispatched in every direction; international congresses are organized in such places as Athens, New Delhi...