Word: eiffel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Opening in June, the 400-room Cavalieri Hilton, stretching across Rome's highest hill, Monte Mário, will be the city's first new de luxe hotel in 20 years. Hilton is negotiating for a hotel site at Orly airport outside Paris, and another near the Eiffel Tower...
Armored Car. The night before De Gaulle was to inspect the Ecole Militaire on the Left Bank near the Eiffel Tower, Paris gendarmes swarmed over the ground, searching the buildings for weapons and interrogating officer students and teachers. De Gaulle showed up next day on schedule, but (in a concession to danger rare for him) cooped up inside an armored Citroën limousine with bulletproof windows. According to the official story from Sûieté headquarters on the Rue des Saus-saies, police had discovered a plot on a civilian's tip, in the nick of time...
...Italian press was outraged. "Why not St. Peter's Basilica!" snapped the Paese Sera. Grumbled Il Giornale d'ltalia: "It's like putting the Eiffel Tower up for auction." Romans conjured up terrible visions of neon signs winking over the colossal marble statues of Neptune and his Tritons...
Your dreams oj independent power, And dear old Konrad Adenauer, And stick them up your Eiffel Tower...
...Americans, going to college in Paris has traditionally assayed high in romance (a garret out of La Boheme, professorial brilliance in a drafty Sorbonne classroom) and low on education (the French was hard to follow, the credits usually nontransferable). Last week, in the shadow of the Eiffel Tower, a school opened to provide both Parisian culture and American credits...