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When the firemen arrived, they were struck by an unusual silence. Only a few flames could be seen flickering through the roof of the fortress-like, cinder-block building, and the men assumed that it was a minor fire. But when they pried open an emergency exit at Le Cinq-Sept, a popular dance hall for youths in Saint-Laurent-du-Pont near Grenoble, two of the firemen fainted. Bodies were stacked before them in ghastly contortions of agony. Fists were literally fried against the locked door. Impressions of hands, arms and heads were fused into the cement wall. Almost...
...darling brother Daniel, who still refuses to leave the villa and who still adores me so suffocatingly, poor thing, told me the most delicious stories of Gregory's mad escapades. Gregory became my obsession, even though I was seared by thoughts that he had engaged in a cinq a sept with my father's fiancee...
...Only one couple, Singer Paul Anka and Anne de Zagheb, have been married at Orly (in the airport chapel), but a lot of couples have slept there. The 268-room Orly Hilton and the 56-room Air Hótel are equally popular with the honeymoon crowd and the cinq-à-sept set who want to avoid being spotted by relatives or friends in downtown hótels de passé. Such liaisons have already become part of the Gallic tradition; in Une Femme Mariée, Jean-Luc Godard's 1964 film, one love scene is filmed...
...Negresco, in Nice, is one of the French Riviera's "Grands Cinq" (the other four: Monte Carlo's Hotel de Paris, Cannes's Carlton, Beaulieu-sur-Mer's La Réserve, Cap d'Antibes' Hôtel du Cap). It is also the most colorful, with its pink-and-green cupola, its doorman in blue knee socks, red pants, buckled shoes and jaunty red cockade, its one-ton Baccarat crystal chandelier in the lounge-and a main floor men's room copied from Napoleon's campaign tent, with toilet paper...
...several thousand people milled about the ticket booths at Place d' Ac-cueil awaiting the public opening at 9:30 a.m. A voice boomed over a loudspeaker: "The time is 9:29." As the seconds ticked away, the crowd began a bilingual countdown-"ten, neuf, eight, sept, six, cinq, four, trois, two, un." Then, with a roar, the first visitors burst in. Watching them swarm over the grounds, one official, who had spent four exhausting years building Expo 67, said quietly: "I get the feeling that it isn't ours any more." But that, as he and millions...