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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...
Here also is the most luxurious resort in the Caribbean, Frenchman's Cove-a palm-pillared beach surrounded by soaring jungle cliffs, with a crystalline, spring-fed river sneaking into the surf along one side. One look, and Canadian Food Tycoon Garfield Weston bought the beach plus 40 acres, only to find out later that the fine print in the bill of sale had contained a stipulation that he build a hotel on the property. His son, Grainger, took over, and the result was 18 houses sited throughout the property to provide maximum privacy and view. Built...
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...
...This is a fatal day!" cried Dutch Foreign Minister Joseph Luns. In London a melancholy joke went the rounds: "Not since 1066 has a Harold been so badly done in the eye by a Frenchman." To the exasperated British, it all recalled the fairy story of the princess who assigns to an unwelcome suitor a series of seemingly impossible tasks to perform-but when the suitor returns triumphant to claim her hand, the princess says: "Oh, I could never marry a man with red hair." Paris wags were retailing the joke about De Gaulle's new inferiority complex...
...William C. DeVane has been such a beloved fixture that last fall Yalemen could hardly believe his announcement of retirement next June. Last week they were equally startled when Yale picked Dean DeVane's successor-not an Old Blue or an Early American but a 42-year-old Frenchman...