Word: french
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...begun to move against guerrilla activity in Laos last month, when it sent 25 U.S. officers to help the French train the 25,000-man Laotian army in the use of U.S.-supplied infantry weapons. In last week's decision, the President went much further. He approved outlays from his own presidential contingency fund and other military aid sources to raise the little nation's armed strength to 29.000, ordered Navy Admiral Harry D. Felt, U.S. commander in the Far East, to airlift arms and equipment to the scene of trouble. With those two orders, and with...
...Socièté des Quarante et Huit Chevaux is the fun-loving, hot-footing, fanny-pinching, hose-squirting, town-wrecking branch of the American Legion. Commonly known as the 40 & 8 Society, it took its name from the French boxcars used to transport U.S. doughboys to the Western Front in World War I. The boxcars could hold 40 men or eight horses, but the 40 & 8 Society is more exclusive: along with horses, it bars nonwhite men (except for American Indians...
...most crowded August yet in the 100-year history of the French Riviera, a place which in Queen Victoria's day thought itself a winter resort. From Menton on the Italian border all along the beautifully indented 165-mile coast to La Ciotat outside Marseille, the sunlit Côte d'Azur was jammed with a half-million vacationing Frenchmen and hundreds of thousands of foreign tourists...
This week, with the coming of September, the hotels and pensions, camp grounds and cellars are emptying as tourists make their exhausted way north to factory and office. French railroads put on extra trains; airlines had to refuse tearful pleas. Route Nationale No. 7, which loops its way up the Rhone Valley to Paris, was bumper to bumper with homeward-bound cars. Many tourists swore they would never return, but might well change their minds by next summer, especially if they listen to the men of vision on the Riviera who are talking excitedly of building artificial islands...
Next morning De Gaulle took off in a twin-jet Caravelle for Algeria to sample the sentiments of the army. Pointedly skipping major cities (where he would have had to deal with intransigent French colons), he barnstormed army units throughout Algeria, hopping from place to place by helicopter and DC-3. He chatted with hundreds of officers and noncoms, ate all his meals with officers of colonel's rank or under. Often he would ask a local commander to come along for a confidential chat on a helicopter trip to the next stop. At Orleansville he had a long...