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...Europeans, life became a little darker, slower, chillier. Heating-oil prices went up 60% to 100%, and thermostats were turned down. In the midst of a French conservation drive in October, President Valéry Discard d'Estaing found his Elys??e Palace dining room so cold that he lunched with Premier Jacques Chirac in the library by a crackling fire. Gasoline rose to $1.40 per gal. in West Germany, $1.72 in Italy, $2.50 in Greece. Electrical advertising signs were banned after 10 p.m. in France and during the daytime in Britain. In Athens, the floodlights illuminating the Acropolis were turned...
...upheavals too." If farms are becoming large, business is becoming still larger. French corporations are swiftly reorganizing their methods and management along American lines. Their executives are studying computer management, and computers are becoming a way of life and profit. There is even one model on Paris' Champs-Elys??es that reads horoscopes ?and that predicted, after reading De Gaulle's, the defeat. The growth of the French economy has created a role for thousands of marketing concerns...
Once considered incurable stay-at-homes, the French have spilled out of their country in recent years to explore the world in greater numbers than have any other Europeans. Airline offices, with their posters showing faraway places, have taken over the Champs-Elys??es, and last week the press announced that a new airbus treaty would be signed with Germany. It is no longer unusual to find a barber in Antibes or a salesgirl in Lyon who has visited the U.S. ?or anywhere else?as a tourist. Practically everyone, it seems, has made a summertime visit to the Spanish...
Shoe Under the Curtain. Owings ?and the committee's ? goal is to turn Pennsylvania Avenue into Washington's ceremonial street ? a rival to Paris' Champs-Elys??es. When completed, it will run straight and wide from a great reflecting pool at the foot of the Capitol to a National Square before the White House. Crucial to the plan is the 75-ft. setback along the avenue's north side, which is already being redeveloped by the Government and private entrepreneurs. To keep the setback, Owings has had to deploy his considerable powers of suasion. When he learned...
...GAULLE is no stranger to crisis and chaos. Other people's disorders have been his mandate for power, so much so that French Historian Herbert Luethy calls him "the politician of catastrophe." Seeing himself as the mystic, predestined savior of France, De Gaulle has twice ridden catastrophe into the Elys??e Palace. He makes no secret of the fact that he regards his presence as France's head of state as the only real insurance against the basic inability of the French to govern themselves without lapsing into one of the frequent periods of violence that mark their history. "After...