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...visitor conceded that Andropov was "very courteous," but went on to describe him as "a modernist, in the sense of a computer, in the sense of precision of word and gesture." The party chief, said the Frenchman, made "a cold, objective presentation" that was "extraordinarily devoid of the passion and human warmth" he encountered elsewhere in the Soviet Union. Others in the Cheysson party described Andropov as looking considerably older than his pictures, or his age, 68, might suggest. They noted that the Soviet leader was tired when the meetings began and that he seemed to have lost weight...
...came along in the '50s, fiberglass in the '60s. Since then, the record has been improved by leaps and sproings. But the 19-ft. ¾in. outdoor mark of that aptly named Russian Vladimir Polyakov has been posted over a year and a half now, and only Frenchman Thierry Vigneron (19 ft. ¼ in.) and Olson have reached such heights...
Wouk still ended up writing scenes that Curtis never shot. "One I hated to lose was Hitler and Goring at the Eiffel Tower as they lowered the French flag and raised the Nazi one, and a bereft Frenchman looked on," says Wouk. Author-Adapter Herman Wouk "That was dramatic, I thought." On the other hand, Curtis occasionally requested material that had not appeared in the book; for example, in a scene where Newlyweds Byron Henry and Natalie Jastrow encounter some Nazis in a Lisbon restaurant, Curtis wanted to have Byron slug one of the Nazis, instead of simply walking...
TIME was just two months old in May 1923 when the first Frenchman, former Premier Rene Viviani, appeared on its cover. Since then, there have been 105 other cover stories devoted to French individuals or events. Last week, inaugurating TIME's 60th anniversary, all those covers went on exhibit at Paris' Georges Pompidou Center. Titled "America Looks at France, TIME 1923-1983," the exposition not only chronicles 20th century Gallic history, but also documents TIME's interest in the personalities and preoccupations of the French...
...take that Spanish police assumed that the operation had been carried out by a sizable and experienced gang. The burglars were so familiar with the bank, investigators theorized, that they must have rented a box at some point in order to case the place. One immediate suspect: Frenchman Albert Spaggiari, 50, who with seven accomplices in 1976 hit a Societe Generate branch in Nice for $ 10 million in cash and other valuables. Spaggiari was nabbed by police for that heist, but escaped one year later by jumping out the window of a magistrate's office where he was being...