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The sequence was all too familiar. First there was the announcement from the Elysée Palace that the President was not well. Then came the news that yet another dinner, this time for the diplomatic corps, was being canceled and another meeting was being postponed, a crucial one scheduled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Most Likely to Succeed | 4/8/1974 | See Source »

McDonald's has had some stumbles. It has expanded overseas with all the zeal of missionaries bringing hamburgers to the heathen.* "We are educating people to a whole new way of life-eating with your fingers instead of forks," says Rolf Kreiner, who directs McDonald's advertising in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOOD: The Burger That Conquered the Country | 9/17/1973 | See Source »

The Pacific protesters are not alone, however. Indeed, although France has conducted nuclear tests in the region of Mururoa yearly since 1966, it has never encountered the current level of outrage. The New Zealand government ordered a frigate, with a cabinet minister aboard, to steam into the test area. The...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NUCLEAR ARMS: Countdown at Mururoa Atoll | 7/2/1973 | See Source »

> At the end of an Elysée luncheon for a Middle Eastern chief of state, De Gaulle reflected: "Our problems were those of our ancestors, and our children will still have to solve them after we are gone. In truth, since I have been born I don't...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: The General Told Me | 7/2/1973 | See Source »

Behind the official explanations, however, grimmer rumors were circulating. Elysée officials blamed his puffiness on the cortisone he is said to be taking to control rheumatism. But there was considerable speculation that his flabbiness and frailty were really due to radioactive cobalt treatments for a disease thought to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Taking Pompidou's Pulse | 6/18/1973 | See Source »

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