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...Trans-Europ Express is a spoof of the spoof-suspense films presented in the Robbe-Grillet manner-which is to say that plot, character and motivation are kept at considerably more than arm's length. Strictly speaking, there are no characters at all, except Author-Director Robbe-Grillet, Producer Samy Helfon and a female assistant, played by Robbe-Grillet's wife Catherine. These three gather in a compartment of the Trans-Europ Express en route from Paris to Antwerp...
...final blackball, but it was the closest thing to it. Assembled in Luxembourg's new 23-story Centre Européen were the members of the Common Market's Council of Ministers, ready for the first official talks on Britain's application for membership. Many feared that France might deliver the coup de gráce right then and there, ending Britain's hopes of gaining entry any time in the near future. What came was a glancing blow that was calculated to prove just as fatal...
...Midland and International Banks Ltd. (capital: $56 million). Three months ago, Britain's Barclays Bank, the Bank of America, Italy's Banca del Lavoro, Germany's Dresdner Bank, Algemene Bank of The Netherlands and Banque Nationale de Paris formed Société Financière Européenne (capital: $7,800,000), with head offices in Paris and Luxembourg...
Long before the Iron Curtain slammed down, the Orient Express had won a reputation as Europe's most exciting train for the countless fictional (and occasionally real) spy plots, love affairs, murders and desperate struggles that took place as it raced across Europe. All the action occurred in railway cars owned by a company with a title to match the grandeur of the Express: Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits et des Grands Express Européens. Wagons-Lits is once again demonstrating its durability by restoring the full Paris-to-Bucharest run of the Orient Express, which...
Fontainebleau is a town 35 miles south of Paris, famous for its cheese, its forest, its historic chateau, and a 400-year-old monastery. Lately it has also become important to international business as the site of what is probably Europe's best business school, the Institut Européen d'Administration des Affaires. INSEAD, as it is known, has built a reputation as a sort of Harvard Business School of Europe by carefully winnowing applicants and training them so rigorously that they are eagerly courted by the headhunters of big international companies. This week INSEAD...