Word: chateauful
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...Lesson in Breathing. The setting for their studies was pure French romantic; the spired Chateau de Mercues, a medieval castle recently converted to a luxury hotel. It stands on a hilltop overlooking the sleepy little town of Cahors in southwestern France near Héreil's country home. The ten-week, six-hour-a-day course (with a tab of $3,000 plus the price of meals for each executive and his wife), was something of a smorgasbord. It mixed Europe's theoretical pedagogy with the case-study methods of U.S. business schools. French and U.S. instructors, including...
...CHATEAU. French Screen writer Jean-Paul Rappeneau (That Mar From Rio) makes his directorial debut with a fresh and funny farce about th German Occupation and the French pre occupation...
Ever since Landlord Charles de Gaulle evicted NATO from France, General Lyman Lemnitzer, 67, the Supreme Allied Commander in Europe, has been househunting in the neighborhood of the new SHAPE headquarters now abuilding in Belgium. At last he settled on the Chateau Gendebien near the town of Mons. The chateau sits in a pleasant 30-acre parkland populated by pheasants and wild rabbits. Unfortunately, the house is pretty much in a state of nature, too. No one has lived there since 1959; five years ago, three vandals broke in and tore the place apart, smashing windows and yanking down chandeliers...
...jacket and his own Belgian-made Herstal over-and-under shotgun. Gromyko cut a different figure: gun in hand he tramped through the fields in business suit, grey fedora and dark topcoat. Still, he proved a good shot. In any case, the forests of De Gaulle's Rambouillet chateau are well stocked for just such occasions, and it was a lot like shooting birds in a barrel. Together, the twelve-man party liquidated 263 pheasants...
...conference was meant to avoid an embarrassing power struggle during Canada's centennial celebrations next year. Diefenbaker was so outraged by the vote that he refused to make his scheduled speech at the conference's closing dinner. As a result, the dinner itself was canceled, leaving the Chateau Laurier with 65 roasted turkeys and no one to eat them...