Word: frenchmen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Figaro & Fruit Juice. As a government-owned counterpart of huge, foreign-flying Air France, Air Inter began operating in 1960 as France's first and only domestic airline. "Why bother?" asked many Frenchmen, accustomed to zipping along France's long, poplar-lined roads at Citroen speed-80 m.p.h. and upward. Air Inter soon proved why. Cramming passengers into mini-bucket seats, and serving only Le Figaro and fruit juice in flight, the line carried 16,000 passengers in its first year, passed 500,000 in 1964, reached 1,170,000 last year. It started with a handful...
Reporters' attempts at candor in uncandid situations contribute to the peculiarities of style that afflict most "informed source" stories. American reporters are brought up in the "he said, she said" tradition of open quotes openly arrived at. American reporters are uneasy with the sweeping statements affected by Frenchmen and other foreigners; the average American newspaperman is constitutionally unable to write a sentence like "The future of NATO is threatened by the re-opening of the Schleswig-Holstein question" without pinning it on someone. Hence when the source is informed but anonymous, the writer casts about for substitutes for "he said...
...Polish-born author, a naturalized U.S. citizen, says that he drew upon the recollections of 700 Poles, Germans, Englishmen and Frenchmen to get his material; and it is otherwise obvious that many of the episodes here are factual. But even in warfare, carnage is relieved by inactivity or restless boredom. The only respite Kuniczak gives his readers is short inconsequential conversations and brief bursts of attempted Joycean lyricism. Laboriously, he relates the personal agonies of a one-armed Polish general and his mistress, a disillusioned American correspondent, a Jewish conscript from the Warsaw ghetto and an idealistic young Nazi officer...
...vacant. Nor have recent government pronouncements led consumers to believe in a brighter future. Earlier this month-concurrent with news of the reflation plan-was word that Paris Métro and bus fares would be boosted by 60%. Railway fares will be increased as well. The week before, Frenchmen learned that social security, which absorbs almost a third of the nation's taxes, has a budget deficit that has grown from $400 million to $600 million in one year...
...March elections, a series of strikes has swept France. Some 8,000 workers at France's largest shipyards have now been out for two months, and steelworkers in Lorraine have been off the job for five weeks. There is more in store, if large enough masses of Frenchmen can be persuaded to fall in step...