Word: frenchman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...downhill, while U.S. skiers soared birdlike off the bumps, provoking "ahs" from fans (and losing time), the Austrians kept their skis in the snow. Heini Messner, an auto mechanic from Gries am Brenner, won the race - with three other Austrians and a Frenchman strung out behind. The star of the meet was France's Jean Claude Killy, 21, who showed why he is the best slalom skier in the world: cutting the gates so close that his sweater brushed the poles, Killy won both the special slalom and the giant slalom. The best the U.S. could do was third...
Added Paris-Jour: "The stupid Frenchman who says 'Don't go to the United States because Chicago is a gangster city, or to Dallas, the city of the rifle with the telescopic sight, or to Las Vegas, racket capital,' doesn't find a very big audience. Let's hope that Mr. Fulbright won't find any bigger one in America...
...full-time job even with the help of a full-time housekeeper. Additionally, there are minor matters, like languages to learn. Lloyd has some school-taught Spanish, and Ann is setting herself to learning French. "My hairdresser can help me," she says, pointing out that he is a Frenchman...
...Galeries Lafayette department store in Paris opened a special Bond Boutique featuring gold-colored mannequins and 007 clothing and jewelry. After a market study found Bond France's top "identification phenomenon" with men 30 to 35 years old, 14 manufacturers obtained licenses to use the 007 label. A Frenchman can put on 007 pajamas and slide in between James Bond bedsheets; he can also buy the woman in his life gold-colored underwear, an 007 negligee or a short Secret Agent Baby Doll nightie...
...French Ponti, however, does not automatically cease being Italian. As it happens, Italy recognizes dual citizenship; some Italians (such as ex-soldiers) can never renounce their citizenship. If Italian courts fail to agree that Ponti has become a 100% Frenchman, marriage to Sophia may bring up the bigamy charge once more. Moreover, if he divorces his first wife in France, she will still be his legal wife in Italy...