Word: corsican
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lean, craggy face peering with a squinty smile into the spotlight had rarely been seen by U.S. audiences, although a few first-nighters might remember it as belonging to the guttily amoral Corsican truck driver in the film Wages of Fear. At 37. Singer Yves Montand is France's highest paid entertainer, the hottest music-hall performer to hit the scene since the end of World War II. Last week, appearing in the open-necked brown shirt and slacks that are his trademark, Yves (pronounced Eve) Montand made his first U.S. appearance at Manhattan's Henry Miller Theater...
Stinging Taunts. Early in March each year, Meo tribesmen journey to the small Laotian town of Xiengkhouang, sell their surplus crop at about $30 a kilo to middlemen, hardheaded types who belong to something known as the Corsican brotherhood. From here the business gets into illicit channels and high prices. By pony caravan, or by light planes that take off from jungle airfields built by the French during their five-year war with Communist Viet Minh, the raw opium is transported to Bangkok and Hong Kong, bought by Chinese dealers at up to $1,000 a kilo and refined into...
...favorite bar, the Sans-Souci, Bill happened to meet a pretty young prostitute named Dominique. Born in a village near Reims, Dominique had been taken to Paris at 18 by a pimp from Corsica. But after getting into trouble over his other line of business-lewd films-the Corsican had fled Paris. The powers of the milieu had no objection to young Bill's taking over where the Corsican left off. For the next 18 months, as Dominique's "protector," Bill got a slice of her earnings in addition to the $300 a month his parents gave...
King with thankful tears, and Corsican officials toasted the occasion in champagne. At week's end Mohammed V flew on to Madagascar, confident that Morocco's squabbling politicians would not seize on his absence to stir trouble back home, hopeful that his symbolic journey would remind them of the unity his people once shared...
...respect Algeria did, in fact, become part of France. When France lost Alsace-Lorraine to Germany in 1871, tens of thousands of Alsatians who were unwilling to become German citizens settled in Algeria. They were followed over the years by a steady trickle of impoverished French and Corsican peasants and by the dispossessed of Spain, Italy and Malta. Today, one Algerian in ten-some 1,060,000 people-is of European ancestry, though perhaps only a third of those who call themselves French are, in fact, of French descent...