Word: cherchez
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Suddenly, Perrier itself is attacked. Mysterious buyers corner 10% of its shares. On the theory of "Cherchez Pétranger," suspicion immediately falls on Unilever, the Anglo-Dutch giant whose own bid for Sapiem has been rejected after the French government persuaded Sapiem to resist any foreign liaisons. Unilever emphatically denies raiding Perrier, and so do other potential foreign rivals, notably Switzerland's Nestlé and the U.S.'s KraftCo, which are also reputed to have eyes on France's dairy industry...
...this slapstick comedy, even the Occupation takes second place to the preoccupation-cherchez la femme. The plot is as old as Gaul, and only a new director would have the gall to tell it again: the sleepy middle-aged husband, the nubile wife, the young stranger (Henri Garcin). But Jean-Paul Rappeneau, 33, has an appetite for the absurd and an unerring eye for casting. An actor in the mugging tradition of Toto and Fernandel, Philippe Noiret is excellent as the pawky, paunchy husband; and Catherine Deneuve, as his restless wife, is as light and tart as a lemon souffl...
...Cherchez la Femme. Though the two have worked as a team for less than a year, sleuthing seems to come naturally to them, and with reason. Before joining Stern in 1963, rotund, nervous Münch was one of Germany's most popular writers of whodunits; rugged, imperturbable Heggemann has a natural flair for adventure, once crossed the Alps in a balloon. Stern Editor Henri Nannen (TIME, Jan. 25, 1960) put the pair on the case as soon as he learned of Zech-Nenntwich's escape...
While the police vainly searched for the fugitive, Münch and Heggemann decided to cherchez la femme-the fugitive's girl friend, beautiful Margit Steinheuer, 25, who had also disappeared. Two nights of pub crawling turned up a brokenhearted young Greek student who had been one of Margit's special friends. Taunted by Münch that he had perhaps been merely a passing fancy, the Greek whipped out a postcard of the Acropolis postmarked only a few days before in Athens. It bore no signature but only the message: "Now I can understand...
...Cherchez la Femme. Baer's wife insisted that her husband was dead. But Frankfurt State Prosecutor Heinz Wolf found that she had never initiated legal proceedings to have him declared so, even though that would have enabled her to claim a widow's pension. Investigators also discov ered that while ostensibly living with her father in a Hamburg suburb, she spent a lot of time in a cottage on the edge of the Sachsenwald, the home of a quiet-spoken woodcutter named Karl Egon Neumann...