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Giscard lieutenants, who only the day before had talked smugly about remaining above the fray, could no longer contain themselves. Foreign Minister Jean François-Poncet blasted Mitterrand for his lack of patriotism and the "rudeness of his expression." Fumed Prime Minister Raymond Barre: "As a Frenchman, I was revolted...
...their cigar ash, is on the runway of Rome introducing Valentino's spring collection. Brooke on TV implies in those naughty ads for Calvin Klein jeans ("Wanna know what comes between me and my Calvins? Nothing") that she does not wear underpants. According to Casablancas, the Manhattan-born Spanish-Frenchman who had the impudence nearly four years ago to challenge the home-grown agencies by opening a New York edition of his Paris-based firm, Brooke embodies "the perfect synthesis of everything that will be successful in the '80s: a little bit of sex and a little bit of innocence...
Such theories are neither new nor revolutionary. The forefather of today's supply-siders was the 19th century Frenchman Jean-Baptiste Say, who enunciated one of the earliest-and most hotly disputed-laws of economics: supply creates its own demand. John F. Kennedy practiced a form of supply-side economics in the early 1960s with measures like the investment tax credit to stimulate business expansion. No less a Keynesian than John Maynard Keynes himself anticipated the supply-siders' stress on incentives to production by writing: "I believe you have first of all to do something to restore profits...
...remarkably touching about those who do not let bad enough alone, perhaps because their errors are errors of the heart. Who but a genuine innocent-in outlook, if not in conduct-would be so bold or dumb as to put his life on the line like that? Not a Frenchman, certainly, who would regard a scandal as droll; nor an Englishman, to be sure, who would regard it as an honor. No, only an American would blunder forth as in the Agee case, openly advocating fair play, the merit system, and the rights of privacy within the same declaration. Only...
...Western nations have shown such distrust of the stock market as France. For decades, the average Frenchman has preferred stashing away gold coins to investing in the country's industry. For the past two years, however, the French Bourse has been on a rampage, thanks to a campaign by President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing to "make the French owners of France...