Word: debre
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...French Cabinet is debating whether it should impose firmer controls on the French economy. Influential former Premier Michel Debré is pressing for more controls; Pompidou and Finance Minister Valéry Giscard d'Estaing argue for more free enterprise. Though the Gaullists see no compelling political reasons at the moment for relaxing the present unpopular controls, most Frenchmen are confident that relief will come later this year. Reason: the next French presidential election must be held by December, and De Gaulle will want his voters to be contented and prospering...
...among French Premiers in that he was snatched from almost total political obscurity to become at least the nominal head of a government. Pompidou has never been elected to anything and had not even held a ministerial portfolio until De Gaulle named him Premier in 1962 to replace Michel Debré. But Pompidou, 52, is enormously able in his own right, and a man who has made a success of several careers...
...conversation and shine with the high fashion of an international society that mixes people of achievement with outsiders of the jet set. Guests have included French Premier Georges Pompidou (who was director general of de Rothschild Frères under his good friend Guy until 1962), former Premier Michel Debré, Prince Sadruddin Khan, Artur Rubinstein, the Charles Wrightsmans of Palm Beach and Porfirio Rubirosa...
Most prominent on the Gaullist side are Premier Georges Pompidou, the National Assembly's tennis-playing President Jacques Chaban-Delmas and ex-Premier Michel Debré. Recently elected as a Deputy from Reunion Island, Debré cannily refused the confining job of faction leader of the Gaullists in order to establish him self as Mr. Fixit for problems throughout the country. Under the spur of Debré's competition, Pompidou is now functioning more like a politician and less like a banker turned statesman. In nationwide broadcasts, he has proved to be a relaxed, avuncular performer...
...three of his predecessors: Paul Reynaud, Pierre Mendés-France and Michel Debré. Straining Minds. Louis-le-grand is today a classic building in the Rue Saint Jacques, its quiet broken by the whining Vespas of its 2,000 boys and the almost audible straining of their minds. Beset with bourrage (cramming), they wearily carve on their desks such mottoes as "Work is a sacred thing; better not touch it," and with good reason. Most French lycées span seven years, the goal being two baccalaureat exams for university entrance at the level of U.S. college sophomores...