Word: frenchmen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...homeland. "Sweden is fantastic," trumpeted one campaign, and great numbers of Swedes stayed home to a not-so-fantastic, record-setting July rainfall. More than a million Britons, or about a quarter of those who normally go abroad for their summer vacations, are holidaying at home. Millions of Frenchmen are staying home. Those Europeans who are traveling at home are forsaking more expensive resort hotels in favor of pensions and campgrounds...
...their frustration, the farmers vow to continue to make life increasingly uncomfortable for officials on all levels of government, indeed for all Frenchmen, and little is being done to stop them. In the Limoges area last week, for example, peasants parked their tractors across a well-traveled tourist road; when motorists tried to turn back from the barrier, they found themselves trapped by more tractors in the opposite direction...
...losses were against Courageous. Intrepid's ebullient supporters have responded by plastering their cars and yachts with KNOCK ON WOOD bumper stickers. There are even some Frenchmen who may be smiling too. Only one foreign boat can become the official challenger, and to earn that designation the favored Southern Cross will have to beat France, a wooden vessel owned by French Bic Pen Tycoon Baron Marcel Bich...
Servan-Schreiber's ouster did not surprise many Frenchmen. Although sometimes unpredictable on other issues, he has been vehemently consistent in opposing not only nuclear testing but France's expensive force de frappe as well. Last year he went to the Pacific to demonstrate against France's atmospheric testing of nuclear devices. He has also backed the cause of Canadian Yachtsman David McTaggart, who sailed his 38-ft. ketch into the nuclear test area in 1972 and 1973 to protest the explosions. McTaggart is suing the French government for allegedly boarding his boat illegally and beating...
...Dutch hierarchy had announced its opposition to mandatory priestly celibacy, Daniélou branded the action a direct attack on the Pope himself. Elected to the French Academy last year, he was the moving spirit behind a letter of "fidelity and obedience" that was signed by 100,000 Frenchmen and sent to the Pope...