Word: frenchmen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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While Charles de Gaulle has not hesitated to trumpet or try to exploit the vulnerability of the dollar, he has been strangely silent about mounting economic problems at home. Other Frenchmen are less reticent. Premier Georges Pompidou admits that the French economy has shown "a certain slowing of growth, even a stagnation of production." The usually docile Patronat-French equivalent of the National Association of Manufacturers-is so disturbed by the letdown that it has formally criticized government economic policies for the first time in memory. In Paris recently, a cartel of steel producers met to survey France...
...route to El Alamein, the Frenchmen sweat and struggle while the German sneers. When they are bogged down in the sand, he refuses to dig. When he begins to unbend and reaches under a seat to offer an injured man a first-aid kit, they clobber him unconscious. Shirtless and wearing German army caps, they join a German troop convoy and narrowly escape disaster when a French P.W. in the convoy recognizes one of the fugitives (France's singing idol, Charles Aznavour) as a countryman. Later, in one fine funny scene, the Frenchmen push...
Millions of Frenchmen are growing old with him--"Look," they say, "he seems tired tonight," or conversely, "Charlie's in good form." Entirely unlike the Big Brother of George Orwell's 1984 he resembles an elderly uncle, "someone you would like for your grandfather," as the Readers Digest once...
Heroine & Haymaker. Sturdy (5 ft. 7 in., 141 Ibs.), freckled, blithely irreverent, Marielle has been called "La Zazie of the Snow"-after the irrepressible heroine of Zazie dans le Métro, a bestselling novel and movie. Frenchmen are still chuckling over the Austrian cop who got into an argument with her coach, Henri Bonnet, at Innsbruck last year; Marielle uncorked a haymaker square on the point of his chin. And then there was the unnerving experience of Premier Georges Pompidou, who lunched with Marielle after the Olympics. Mlle. Goitschel started things off by making the V for Victory sign...
...that allowed The Bathers to leave France, the Pellerins gave still another Cézanne, an 1868 portrait of a minor artist, Achille Emperaire, whose name is oddly stencilled on the canvas. Said a Culture Ministry official: "One would say that one was a counterpart to the other." Few Frenchmen were satisfied by what they thought a paltry pre-impressionist consolation prize by a man who laid down ground rules for cubism...