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...argued that European duties, purchase taxes and quotas have priced U.S. cars out of the market. Noted the association: with taxes and duties, a U.S. compact such as the Ford Falcon (New York list price: $2,040) costs an English buyer $5,238, an Italian $4,368 and a Frenchman $4,184. Many a businessman feels that unless foreign nations allow U.S. products to compete on equal terms in foreign markets, there will be a rise in protectionist sentiment...
Living Character. Shortly after Gary's novel first came out in France in 1956, Gary had a long letter from a game warden living in the Ivory Coast territory of French West Africa. Raphael Matta, a Frenchman of Italian descent, seemed Morel sprung to uncanny life-though Gary and Matta had never met or heard the other's name. Like Morel, Matta had undergone a shattering World War II experience. An exploding land mine almost took his life, and left him totally deaf...
...from Agitprop. This was the keynote of the second half of Khrushchev's tour de France. At times, Nikita seemed intent on establishing himself as a kind of honorary Frenchman. His family helped. Motherly Nina Khrushchev admired acres of stained-glass windows, trudged through an open-air market where she expertly sniffed at a proffered melon...
...Walter Raleigh, Sir Francis Drake and the Frenchman Jean Nicot (after whom nicotine is named) all helped to popularize smoking, considered it good for the health. In 1614 a Scottish doctor named William Barclay wrote that tobacco "prepares the stomach for the acceptance of meat, makes the voice clear and the breath sweet," pushed it as an antidote for "hypochondric melancholy" and such diseases as arthritis and epilepsy...
...with. "We have a little gold," he added, "but we keep it. I don't know why. Lenin said, 'A day will come when they will pave floors of public toilets with gold.' " Then Khrushchev abruptly asked whether anyone knew of any descendants of a Frenchman named Lebrun who had owned the Ukrainian mine where he had slaved as a youth. No one did, and Khrushchev laughed, saying, "I do not ask for any reparations. Since then I have had many...