Word: dreyfusism
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...Delay. Algeria was a word much spoken also in a courtroom in suburban Vincennes, where nine would-be assassins were on trial for having tried to kill De Gaulle last August in an ambuscade at Petit-Clamart, a Paris suburb. As has so often happened in France since the Dreyfus case of the 1890s, the trial was not confined to pertinent evidence but blossomed into a national political affair. Very few Frenchmen had much sympathy for the defendants, but many had grave doubts about how they were being tried...
...sees himself as something of a martyr. "I owed this service to the nation," he said in a recent column, and added, with strained modesty: "I should like to ask all of you who concern yourselves about us: Do not worry. No one of us is a Captain Dreyfus and no one, unfortunately, an Emile Zola...
...program called it the $125,000 Washington, D.C. International, and 13 thoroughbreds from nine nations pranced to the post at Maryland's Laurel Race Course. But to the fans, it was strictly a domestic affair, a test between the three top U.S. horses: Jack Dreyfus' sprinter, Beau Purple; Mrs. Richard C. duPont's great gelding. Kelso; and Jack Price's millionaire colt, Carry Back. Ill-mannered catcalls greeted the Russian and Japanese entries, and Britain's Pardao went off at 108-to-1 odds...
...Beau Purple, Jack Dreyfus' temperamental, long-striding sprinter, who insists on taking the lead at the start of a race: the $114,800 Man O' War Stakes on the turf at New York's Belmont Park-a contest that was billed as a match race between Carry Back, winner of more than $1,000,000 in three years, and Kelso, the Horse of the Year in 1960 and 1961. Almost unnoticed by betters, who let him go off at 20-1, Beau Purple fought off Kelso's challenge to win by two lengths. Carry Back finished...
...other reason than that so much of European business is nationalized. Contrary to what most Americans might expect, some of Europe's ablest managers are civil servants who drive to expand their industrial empires with a zeal worthy of any capitalist. Says Civil Servant Pierre Dreyfus, who has built France's state-owned Renault company into one of the world's most efficient auto producers: "We have no reason to be nationalized unless we serve France-but on one condition: we must not lose money...