Word: fran
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...seen Cuccia play quite a few times and he reminds me of Fran Tarkenton. He impresses me not only as an athlete but as a gentleman," Munio added. "His height is the only thing that might hold him back...
...April, when Communist Secretary-General Georges Marchais came under widespread attack in party ranks as the cause of the disaster. Critics charged that party leaders' autocratic exercise of "democratic centralism"-the party's code word for unquestioned rule from the top-had provoked the split with François Mitterrand's Socialists and the splintering of the once confident Union de la Gauche. When Marchais chose simply to blame the Socialists rather than examine in cold detail the causes of the March defeat, six party intellectuals took the unprecedented step of attacking the Politburo in Le Monde...
...French were immediately convinced that Marchais's ingratiating turnabout on dissent within the party was a permanent change. Observed Jean-François Revel, perennial critic of the Communists: "Each time that the party steps on the democratic accelerator, it then pushes yet more vigorously on the brake." That helps explain why the Communists are stalled in France's political traffic...
...reigning crew of bland newsreaders with a single, reassuringly credible, American-style anchorman-en effet, a French Walter Cronkite. In 1974 French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing made that scheme possible by splitting the monopoly into three parts. Officials of Télévision Française I, one of the new state-owned but competing channels, were given only two months to find a suitable anchor, so they took a long shot: Roger Gicquel, a relatively obscure former airline steward, failed actor and radio-station executive who had never been in front...
...place, spent more than $40,000 to refurbish it from reception room to flagstaff, which now flies the Maple Leaf and the blue and white Quebec flag, along with the Stars and Stripes. With an eye to fellow emigres from Quebec, Murphy has ordered a sign saying PARLONS FRANçAIS. Quand même, the Murphys insist they want to become Americans and "live the American...