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...crowds along the track.* The seats had velvet covers topped by Brussels lace, and lush damask .curtains hung from the windows; the fittings were of solid oak and mahogany; on the outside of every car was a coat of arms and the proud gold lettering, "Les Grands Express Européens." Hand-cut glass separated the sleeping compartment from the outside aisle. In elegant salon cars, diners lingered over oysters and chilled glasses of Veuve Cliquot served by attendants in morning coats, light blue silk breeches, white stockings and buckled shoes. Elegant prostitutes provided companionship for the lonely...
...nation's No. 1 seedbed for future corporation presidents has long been Harvard's Graduate School of Business Administration. Last week European leaders gathered at Fontainebleau Palace, south of Paris, to inaugurate a Harvard-style Institut Européen d'Administration des Affaires. Chief purpose of the new Institut will be to train a whole new generation of European businessmen capable of operating the expanded businesses made possible by the European Common Market...
...Joyous Entrance. To the tidy-minded who demand tables of organization and clearly drawn lines of authority, cooperative unity sounded suspiciously like a fancy phrase for doing nothing. But since 1953, European railways have pooled freight cars as U.S. railroads do, now have some 200,000 cars marked EUROP roaming one another's tracks. Another joint project soon to be established is Eurocontrol-an integrated system of air-navigational control...
...France, Premier Faure told the people that at Geneva there were not "four big ones, but two colossi," and some French politicians became newly apprehensive that the two colossi might settle Europe's fate through "le dialogue russo-ameéricain" without reference to France. There was also the possibility that the fate of Germany might be decided bilaterally between Adenauer and the Russians. Result: a curious revival of French enthusiasm for "la relance européenne," or the relaunching of the idea of Europe. In Faure's Cabinet last week, Robert Schuman, father of Europe...
...poem is concerned with the variously-named demigod or "spirit of the year"-e.g., Zeus, son of Rhea . . . who in early European religious theory was at first wholly subject to his all-powerful variously-named Virgin Mother. As Europë, "Broad-face" (her full-moon title), she named this...