Word: frenchmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...invite a vegetarian to dinner and then serve meat. You know, this wouldn't happen in any other country." With impeccable Gallic aplomb, the maitre d'hotel ushered the foaming Drys to a separate table set with walnut juice and other soft drinks. The Frenchmen stayed where they were, and before very long sent out for more champagne...
Last week Presiding Judge Sir Arnold McNair (a Briton) delivered the majority opinion: 1) the 1948 import restrictions are illegal and Americans have the right to import goods to French Morocco on the same terms as Frenchmen; 2) U.S. citizens in certain civil and criminal cases may claim the right to be heard in U.S. consular courts, but in other cases are subject to Moroccan laws; 3) U.S. citizens in Morocco must pay Moroccan taxes...
...dressing gown, eating honey and yoghurt. Six nations this week crowned him a civilian Mr. Europe. They made him first president of the High Authority of the European Coal and Steel Community (Schuman Plan). The Schuman Plan is rightly named for Foreign Minister Schuman, who alone among Frenchmen had the moral authority to propose it successfully to Europe (TIME, March 1, 1948). But it was Jean Monnet who conceived the plan and did the behind-the-scenes selling...
...major conquest that remained for serious European mountain climbers was the sheer west face of the Aiguille du Dru, which rises over the Chamonix Valley to 12,247 ft. above sea level. To blaze this last unclimbed trail in the Alps, four tough young Frenchmen roped themselves together with 70-ft. lengths of nylon and started...
Gieseking, a German who plays the French impressionists better than most Frenchmen, devotes four sides to all 24 of the Preludes of Debussy (Girl with the Flaxen Hair, Sunken Cathedral, General La-vine-eccentric, etc.). Their delicate, pastel coloration, slippery sonorities, puckish humor and technical perfection make these four sides the best of the lot. When Gieseking comes to the otherworldly slow movement of Mozart's Concerto in A Major (K. 488), he sounds rather heartless; his Beethoven G-Major Concerto is appropriately intimate, but could do with more drive and more clarity of detail...