Word: frenchman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...leader of a Third Force is also the lengthening extension of that man. Those of his allies who have to deal with le grand Charles sometimes find that their exasperation exceeds their admiration. But any way one looks at it, whether as an ally or as a Frenchman worrying about the chaos that might follow his death, there is a lot riding on the towering man in the Elysée Palace. He is 72, and he has enemies desperate enough to want to kill...
...resignation last spring, Fritz Reiner, 74, built the Chicago into one of the best-disciplined orchestras in the world. Chicago's new man, who will arrive next season, is Jean Martinon, 53, a composer and conductor and presently the General Music Director in Düsseldorf. Martinon, a Frenchman, will inherit the most Germanic orchestra outside Germany...
Only an independent Europe can be expected to defend itself, because only it would have something to defend. A Frenchman will not fight for the American way of life...
Couve arrived an hour late for the start of the meeting at Quatre Bras, the modern Foreign Ministry building. Newsmen's questions to him died in the air at the grim set of the Frenchman's face. A path two feet wide miraculously parted the crowd and like an apparition-or a leper-Couve moved unmolested to the elevator...
Their graduates virtually run France. In fields from art to war, these schools provide the professional training that certifies a Frenchman for the upper ranks of science, industry and the grand corps of key officials who have quietly governed France amid the constant crash of cabinets. Without such training, it is hard to rise-a French Henry Ford is almost inconceivable. France has more than a dozen grandes écoles, but the most famous and the most important are the Ecole Normale Supérieure, tops for teachers; the Ecole Polytechnique, tops for engineers; and the Ecole Nationale...