Word: en
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...DARDENNE St. Germain-en-Laye, France...
...theater car on the train that was to carry the delegates. No one in Travel had ever heard of a theater car; neither had the railroads. The man who made the request explained that it was a car equipped with theater seats, in which meetings could be held en route. Finally, someone in the Pullman Co. remembered that at one time they had equipped a theater car for a convention. It hadn't been used for 25 years...
...Minus-One. Mendès had begun that day, the next to last before his deadline, faced with new demands 1) from China's Chou En-lai for a slice of northern Laos to be attached to China's province of Yunnan, and 2) from Pham Van Dong for more than a third of Laos to be handed over to the "free" Pathet Laos movement. Heavy black circles under his eyes, Mendès had picked up his faithful backer Anthony Eden, rushed off to see Chou Enlai...
...Bocage, another French villa near the lake. While waiting for Mendès, Molotov walked alone under the chestnut trees in the garden, studying some notes. Mendès arrived, wearing sunglasses over his tired eyes and apologizing profusely for being late-he had been entertaining Chou En-lai at a long, lavish lunch. The four went into a huddle. At 5:20 p.m. the word went out: agreement reached. Mendès had accepted the 17th parallel; the Communists had agreed to a delay of two years before Vietnamese elections...
...Chou En-lai of Peking moved through Europe with the relaxed grace of a conqueror. He savored pâté de foie gras and raspberries with Mendès-France; he sipped wine with three Chinese actresses and an Occidental jester, Charlie Chaplin...