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...million) for the five-year reconstruction job. The government would only promise 365 million francs a year, so Cornu turned fund-raiser himself. Soon the money was pouring in. Movie stars raised 30 million raffling off cars at a Paris auto show, the state-run casino at suburban Enghien signed up for 30 million a year, the French National Lottery promised another 400 million a year. From all over France donations came in from benefit dances, music festivals, theater performances and house-to-house canvases. Everybody contributed, from the Bank of France (10 million francs) to retiring U.S. Ambassador David...
...French government, weighed down with a record budget, has taken no steps to appropriate funds. So far, no U.S. millionaire has volunteered to go to the rescue. The most generous contribution toward the palace's rehabilitation to date: $600,000 from the state-controlled gambling casino at nearby Enghien...
Like ants to a honey pot, the feckless of Europe flocked last week to Enghien-les-Bains, just outside Paris. There, in the white casino above the quiet lake, twelve beauties were competing for the title Miss Europe. At the first showing two were missing: bumped by Egyptian royalty from the Cairo-Paris plane, Miss Italy still sat in Rome; Miss Austria just hadn't appeared...
Thorez was quick to realize his mistake. At 9:30 on "referendum night," the big four of the French Communist Party were sitting around a rickety wooden table in an office on the top floor of the Humanité building in the rue d'Enghien. Most political experts believed that the results could not safely be predicted until midnight. Came a discreet tap on the door and a youth entered bearing a slip of paper. It was the result of the vote in the Ivry-sur-Seine district, Communist stronghold on the outskirts of the city, Thorez...
...Flemings, however, far from being satisfied, are still irked by several important Walloon "islands"' within Flemish territory. Last year a gang of Flemish patriots invaded one island-Enghien-and started to paint out French signs. They were driven off by Walloons who threw pails of water at them. Most notable island, however, is Brussels, the capital, once a Flemish city but now French. The Flemings now threaten to "retake" Brussels and flamandize...