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...ways to generate its own six-nation currency for international trade, and France has been pushing to create a ten-nation "cru" (composite reserve unit...
...probably using the threat of a gold standard in hopes of pressuring the U.S. and Britain into accepting lesser changes in the monetary system favorable to France. For the past six months he has been urging the creation of a new international reserve currency called the "cru" (for collective reserve unit), which would give greater weight to gold and more financial power to nations with heavy gold supplies. The U.S. has opposed it, but De Gaulle's attack on the dollar may force Washington to reconsider...
Friendly Rivals. On the great marshy peninsula of Médoc, the celebrated vines that grow over 200 chalky acres of Château Lafite-Rothschild produce a grand cru that is the pride of Guy, Elie, Alain and Edmond. Next door, at his Château Mouton Rothschild, Philippe wages a battle for oenological equality with his fond cousins and competitors, trying to persuade the French government's wine agency to revise its official 1855 wine classification, which listed Mouton slightly below Lafite. Philippe has commissioned, among others, Cocteau, Braque, Dali and Lippold to design labels...
...week as though they had just sipped sour Médoc. ";We are furious," snapped one. What they were furious about was the prospect of losing their profitable business with Chateau Latour, one of four venerable vineyards* that produce the only chateau-bottled Medoc wines rated as premier grand cru...
...liters of pure alcohol a year (equal to more than five gallons of 100-proof brandy). Since then, through two empires, two monarchies and five republics. French peasants have guarded their home stills like so many Kentucky moonshiners-and French politicians have cherished the bouilleurs de cru (distillers of the countryside) as zealously as U.S. politicians protect the farm bloc...