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...young man had sailed alone on his raft for 51 days. When he boarded the British freighter Arakaka in the Atlantic three weeks ago, he had a thick, dark beard, and his rotted clothing was caked with salt and fish blood. He was a Frenchman named Alain Louis Bombard, 28, he told open-mouthed passengers and crewmen. He had set out on the raft from Las Palmas in the Canary Islands in mid-October. Since then, he had lived solely on food and drink gathered at sea: fish, sea birds, barnacles, plankton (minute animal and vegetable life floating...
...rostrum of the Chamber, beneath the stone-eyed gaze of Attic beauties, the prosaic tannery-man from St. Chamond ticked off the things he proposed to do: fight inflation, which had shrunk the franc to one twenty-fifth of its prewar value. Bring down prices, not by dirigisme (the Frenchman's word for government controls) but by persuading the big industrialists and the countless Antoine Pinays of France to be content with more reasonable profit margins. Balance the budget, not by his predecessors' resort to higher taxes, but by slicing expenditures and borrowing on a businesslike basis. Seduce...
...almost every proposal was a barb that brought squeals of dissent from some faction of the Assembly. But Antoine Pinay, who understands the common Frenchman, was reaching beyond the Assembly to the public. "The remedies are neither of the right nor of the left," he said. ". . . They are technical measures to be taken in a climate of political truce...
...electorate, who voted Communist (a survey by France's FORTUNE-like Réaltiés showed that most were "seeking an energetic and dependable champion who would improve their material lot . . . The U.S.S.R., despite a vague sympathy, gets on their nerves a little . . ."). The Frenchman who spends some 60% of his income for food, and lives four in a room because neither government nor business will build him houses, cannot quite get his heart into La Marseillaise when he comes to the line: "The day of glory has arrived...
...ringside Frenchman, swigging cognac against the cold, covered his eyes as Awazu let loose the first of his shrieking "Yeeeeooowwhhs!" "God, I can't look," shuddered the ringsider. "Tell me if he eats them too." Awazu, a sixth-dan judoka,* did not go that far, but he tossed the ten contestants in just 15 minutes without even raising a sweat...