Word: frenchmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...voting for a President of France dragged on at Versailles, ballot after ballot, the mood of the French press and public grew darker with rage and indignation. In Lyon, citizens hung up a street banner reading: THE CONGRESS OF VERSAILLES IS A MOCKERY. FRENCHMEN OF ALL OPINIONS, SHOW DISAPPROVAL BY PUTTING YOUR FLAGS AT HALF-MAST. What had begun as a "glorious uncertainty" (in the words of mercurial Foreign Minister Georges Bidault) had degenerated into an inglorious ordeal. Although the presidency is supposed to be above politics, it was partisan politics that blocked a choice for so long...
...unknown outside France, little known in France except to his parliamentary colleagues and an enigma to everyone for his views-whatever they are -on the liveliest topic of all, EDC. He is not a nonentity; he is, in fact, a case study in the solid bourgeois qualities that many Frenchmen want in their President. He may, just possibly, do very well in the job. Born of solid Norman stock (he is no kin to the late Perfumer François Coty, who was really a Corsican named Spoturno), René Coty hung out his shingle as a lawyer...
...make up its mind? No one ponders these questions more earnestly than the French themselves. As France sulked proudly at the sting of the U.S. Secretary of State's rebuke and vacillated helplessly over the choice of a President who would exercise little or no power, several thoughtful Frenchmen attempted to answer the question: What is wrong with France...
What is lacking is the chance for Frenchmen to show...
...most successful adventure stories had a personal-narrative quality that challenged the year's best fiction. Two of the best, and bestselling as well, were by Frenchmen: Maurice Herzog's thriller about the scaling of Annapurna (see CINEMA) and J. Y. Cousteau's eerily poetic description of deep-sea diving, The Silent World. Finest of the field was Charles Lindbergh's recollection of his flight across the Atlantic in 1927, The Spirit of St. Louis...