Word: frenched
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most of all, foreign oil companies were doubtful that oil could be got out through war-torn Algeria. The F.L.N. rebels, insisting that the French Sahara is an inseparable part of Algeria (although most Algerian Moslems fear the Sahara and have traditionally avoided it), swore to destroy any oil the French tried to move out of the desert, proclaimed that the rebel government would automatically consider void any Sahara concessions that foreign oil companies negotiated with the French government...
What all this will mean to the French economy was spelled out not long ago by Jacques Soustelle. Said he: "Metropolitan France now consumes more than 20 million tons of oil a year. This was the basic factor that for years brought our trade balance into the red. When in five or six years consumption reaches the 36 million-ton level, we will be able to pump between 30 and 50 million tons out of the Sahara...
Sahara oilmen dismissed as impractical even Soustelle's more modest plans to bring their wives and families to the desert. And many hardheaded French businessmen and bureaucrats, noting that it will probably take the oil companies 30 years to amortize the investments they have already made in the Sahara, pooh-pooh Soustelle's industrialized Sahara as visionary...
...frayed, middle-aging English professor (Alec Guinness) who goes on a holiday in France with nothing to declare but a hollow in the heart. He no sooner suggests that "a man has to be empty before he can be used" than he has a chance encounter with a decadent French count (Alec Guinness) whom he strikingly resembles. The professor is tricked into assuming the Frenchman's identity, along with a down-at-the-plumbing Loire chateau crammed with impressive horrors: the count's plaintive wife (Irene Worth), who fears for her life because of a portentous clause...
Died. Jean Benoit-Levy, 71, French producer of some 400 documentary films, the best of them (La Maternelle, Ballerina) luminous glimpses of a tender world of uncoached children in their ordinary surroundings; in Paris...