Word: en
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hard-to-spot "control" and "inquisition" points as well as visiting synagogues along the way. At each control point, teams had to perform some action correctly: waving a handkerchief, snatching a brass ring while driving at 9 m.p.h., buying a stick of candy (but drivers who sneaked a lick en route had it scored against them). At each of five inquisition points, teams had to answer a question. The questions: 1) When was the state of Israel founded? 2) Who is the President of Israel? 3 ) How many candles are there in Hanukah lights? 4) What is the difference between...
...Frenchmen. The crux of France's wine problem is overproduction of poor, low-priced grades. Almost half of France's home-wine crop comes from le Midi méditerranéen, roughly the region between Marseille and the Pyrenees. It is cheap, tart wine, and much of it is mixed with Algerian wine and sold as vin rouge, which must be consumed quickly, or it will turn sour...
...transport to Ohio's Wright-Patterson field last week when the U.S. Defense Department handed down its ruling: the MIG was not a legitimate prize of war because it had been surrendered by its pilot after the armistice. The crated aircraft was grounded en route -reportedly at Okinawa-and the U.N. command announced that it was canceling its offer of $50,000 reward for additional MIGs. Furthermore, it offered to return this one to its "rightful owner" if the owner would step forward and present proof of ownership. The plane had already revealed enough secrets to compensate...
...officers' common language is French, and one bitter phrase dominates their conversation. "En principe [in principle]," they say, there is a European Army uniform. No one knows what color it will be, but en principe it exists. Nor has anyone laid eyes on the European Army boot, though en principe, footwear will be worn by every one of the 2,000,000 soldiers who, en principe, will serve...
...Paris and amour had not changed since the golden nineties (although one line in the song admitted: "Actually, I don't believe any of it"). Then came Edith Piaf, so thin that she was barely visible through the nightclub smoke, with an occasional sentimental number (La Vie en Rose), but in reality a siren of disillusion, a kind of existentialist among chanteuses. But Patachou is almost a rural reactionary, who goes back to a sturdy, bucolic France that persists beneath the phony Parisian sparkle...