Word: chalet
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...last week broadcast a warning to Moslems in Algeria: "Negotiation is not peace. Everyone must realize that the colonialist forces have not disarmed, and that negotiations may be long and difficult." How long and difficult they might prove was suggested by Louis Joxe's rental of a hillside chalet outside Evian. He signed a lease for a month-with an option to renew indefinitely...
...Children. Three weeks ago, police tailed the two and their girl friends to Mégéve, a fashionable ski resort near the Swiss border. Raymond rented a picturesque eleven-room chalet, and they all moved in. Along with them was Medical Student Jean-Simon Rotman. who once lived in the same rooming house as Raymond. He. too. soon found a girl: a Franco-Japanese stripper named Mitsouko. The three couples lived it up in bar and bistro. When Ingelise Bodin was chosen "Miss Courcheval" at a nearby resort, they celebrated with a restaurant party. Raymond was amused...
Declined Wager. In Paris, the methodical police finally tracked down some letters that Raymond's ex-wife had typed on her missing Hermes. They matched exactly the ransom notes sent the Peugeots. Last week the police moved in on the chalet and arrested Raymond Rolland and Ingelise in bed. Their companions, who had already set off for Paris, were picked up on the road. After 45 hours' interrogation, Raymond Rolland fainted, was revived with smelling salts, and then confessed. Pierre Larcher soon confessed too. Frogmen dove into the Seine and recovered the Hermes typewriter where Raymond said...
...that the U.S. and Russia would be the next antagonists, he selected 50 cases of important documents from his files, hid them in Bavaria. Then he ordered 30 key officers of his staff to go underground and wait for word from him. He himself holed up in a mountain chalet, and several weeks later marched down, surrendered himself to U.S. authorities...
...years following her rise from a Puzzuoli slum, Italian Cinemactress Sophia Loren accumulated fame, fortune and upwards of $500,000 worth of jewelry. Last week in England she had fame, fortune-and only her wedding ring, which she wore when she left a rented chalet near London and drove to meet her husband at the airport. In her absence crooks invaded the chalet, escaped the notice of three occupants, swiped all her other gems. Wailed Sophia, currently working on a movie version of Shaw's The Millionairess: "It is so unjust. My jewels meant so much to me. They...