Word: frenchman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...firing a shotgun into the air on Los Alamos' main street. After the war, he helped measure bomb yields at the Crossroads tests at Bikini in 1946, and at the Sandstone tests at Eniwetok atoll in 1948, directed technical operations during the Ranger series on Nevada's Frenchman Flat in 1951. He was in technical command of the world's first thermonuclear explosions, set off over a small island near Eniwetok in 1952. "It was the most terribly impressive thing I've ever seen," he says. "We couldn't even find the damn island...
...Algeria. Today he is a grocer in Montpellier on the verge of bankruptcy. Complaining that his store is boycotted because he is a pied-noir (European of Algeria), Clement says angrily: "My father was killed at Verdun. I helped liberate France in 1944. I'm as good a Frenchman as anyone in Montpellier, but the animosity of the local population is terrible...
...agency in human history. But the U.S. taxpayer is quite a fellow himself. In his heart burns a variety of emotions: deep resentment, hopeless resignation, awful foreboding, dark temptations. His conscience, if it does not always triumph still does pretty well. Unlike the Italian, the Latin American or the Frenchman, for whom tax evasion is a way of life, the U.S. taxpayer turns over anywhere from 20% to 91% of his income, as requested, with uncommon honesty. Like everyone else, he likes to play the game with the tax collector, but usually for small stakes. IRS Commissioner Mortimer Caplin estimates...
Last Year at Marienbad (Astor), written by Novelist Alain Robbe-Grillet, the prophet of The New Dehumanism that is currently fashionable in French letters, and directed by Alain Resnais, the 39-year-old Frenchman who made Hiroshima, Mon Amour (TIME, May 16, 1960), has been bruited about Europe as a masterpiece of the cinema of ideas. It won the grand prize at the Venice Film Festival, and went on to do a brisk business all over the continent. Released now in the U.S., it promises to become the intellectual sensation of the cinema year, and to judge from pre-release...
...Godard with his own terror tactics. Last October, Godard was picked up in an Algiers street for carrying false identity papers. At the central police station, he privately told a top cop: "I know you and you know me. I'm Colonel Godard. I appeal to you as a Frenchman and a patriot to let me go." The policeman...