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Volcker's problems in those days, when he was Nixon's Under Secretary of the Treasury for Monetary Affairs, were chiefly with the French. But the French have also found ways to be accommodating. When Volcker stays in Paris, the Crillon Hotel installs the bed that was specially made for a famous 6-ft., 4-in. guest: General Charles de Gaulle. No other will hold the frame of the 51-year-old banker from New Jersey...
...houses emerge, year after year, as masters of trompe l'oeil. Otherwise, monitoring these collections would be like sitting through Aida for the 42nd time. As Mrs. Pierre Schlumberger, of the French oil-rich, noted before seeing the Saint Laurent collection in the laurel-bedecked ballroom of the Crillon, "We can't really expect them to keep coming up with something new twice a year, though that is what we are demanding." What Paris offered last week was manic vacillation...
...coup against the government of Isabel Perón. Connecting with a flight that arrived at midnight-"All flights seem to arrive in Lima at midnight," he notes-Hillenbrand spent six days covering a long round of speeches and committee meetings at the conference site at the Crillon Hotel. The rather quiet routine was enlivened briefly by the speech of General Juan Velasco Alvarado, head of Peru's leftist military junta. Resplendent in his full-dress uniform, Velasco held up Peru's revolution as a model for developing nations. But at week's end, while filing...
Most productive stake-out of all has proved to be the bar and grill of the Hotel Crillon, next door to the American embassy. Harriman dines there regularly, and most members of the U.S. delegation can be found at the bar sooner or later. One reason stories are scarce, and off-the-record chats with the diplomats are hard to come by is the problem of electronic surveillance. At the Majestic, quipped one U.S. diplomat, "there must be so many bugs they ride side-saddle." The Crillon is considered no more secure. "The only thing we talk about...
...onetime military aide who was recently designated General Creighton Abrams' deputy in Viet Nam. The huge, 164-member U.S. Embassy in Paris will provide manpower and logistical support for the delegates, most of whom are likely to bivouac just across the street from the embassy at the venerable Hotel Crillon. Harriman and Vance may use the now-vacant ambassador's residence, although Ambassador-Designate Sargent Shriver very much wants to get to Paris in time for the big show. He may be thwarted, however, by the fact that Charles de Gaulle is scheduled to visit Rumania next week...