Word: frans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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AIMEZ-VOUS BRAHMS . . (127 pp.)-Françoise Sagan-Dutton...
...WLOK, moved on to WWJ in Detroit as an announcer before going into the Army in World War II. (He collapsed after a four-week basic training course and got a medical discharge.) During an eleven-year stretch with NBC in Chicago, he got into TV, announced for Kukla, Fran and Ollie, followed that with 894 hours on Arlene Francis' Home show in New York. In addition to his night work on the Paar show, he runs a daytime TV game called Concentration, also has a weekend post on radio's Monitor...
...Gaulle's abolition of a parity index hitching farm prices to market prices had hit them hard. But the indignant farmers at Amiens (pop.100,000) were pushed into a rampaging mood by right-wing agitators who broke up their gathering with cries of "Vive null and "Algerie Française !" The head of the farmers' group was himself stoned to unconsciousness as he tried to quell the agitators...
...hotheads, toughs and ultras held the heart of the city of Algiers. Their barricades of paving blocks sealed off street after street around the university. Students cradling Tommy guns sat on the roofs, dangling their legs. Members of the Front National Français poured in from the nearby slums to stand guard under their black Celtic crosses or to drill in the makeshift uniforms of the territorial army, a sort of Algerian home guard. Truckloads of armed peasants had rushed in from the rich plain of Mitidja. And there were the girls of all of them, serving as nurses...
...Blows (French). A small boy takes it on the lam from the mean and loveless world of his parents. But under François Truffaut's direction, society itself takes the blame for his flight...