Word: frenchmen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...unusual move, De Gaulle summoned his Cabinet during the vacation month of August, and sourly noted that without economic and financial stability France could not have the glorious "policy consistent with her interests." Premier Georges Pompidou, an ex-banker, candidly said that all Frenchmen were jiggling tax returns a bit in their own favor, lamented that "while an American always wants to demonstrate that he earns more than his neighbor, the Frenchman always wants to show you he earns less...
...Brussels over the headquarters of the Common Market. The tribute was in homage to that grand old Eurocrat, Robert Schuman. His death last week at 77 remined the world that the new Europe which Charles de Gaulle so grandly purports to head owes much of its impetus to other Frenchmen with broader horizons...
Relations with France are surprisingly close: 20,000 French technicians, their salaries paid by Paris, work in Algeria, and young Algerian government employees are being trained in France. Most Frenchmen, including De Gaulle, "have a conscience about Algeria," and Paris has granted upwards of $400 million in aid. The U.S. last year supplied 300,000 tons of wheat, which fed 4,600,000 undernourished Algerians, and U.S. aid during the next fiscal year will come to about $40 million. The Communist bloc has so far offered only $12 million, mostly in loans, but last week a top-level Soviet economic...
...hand will be a team of nine Americans, eight Englishmen, 50 Frenchmen and one Spaniard. Some will do the acting; others will handle the cameras as they sweep across the endless strips of white sand and incredibly blue bays. But the producer of Harry's Girls, Bill Friedberg, is less interested in the terrain than in the kind of girls he wants for Harry - the mostly bikinied, unemployed actresses and models who are found in abundance on the beaches of Cannes, Juan-les-Pins and Monte Carlo. They should make most viewers forget about Harry...
...Frenchmen, the 22-day Tour is not just a race; it is an obsession. It attracts upwards of 15 million spectators, boosts daily newspaper sales by 10%, virtually ensures a 40% boost in business for cafes and shops lucky enough to be located along the route. And it is as punishing as it is popular. This year's 2,570-mile Tour started northward from Paris into Belgium, doubled back through Anjou and Aquitaine to the Pyrenees, swung straight across the south of France, then cut back across the Alps to Paris. On the flat, racers had to average...