Word: frenchmen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...short, Orly comes close to the unlikely proposition that airports can be fun-a fact of which chauvinistic Frenchmen are justly proud. They are somewhat less proud, of course, of the fact that Orly is also a happy hunting ground for hundreds of pickpockets, who have stolen an estimated $200,000 from the pockets of travelers and tourists within the past five months...
...most original, and just about the most authentic naive painters," admitted Paris' Figaro Littéraire with an air of astonishment. The show consisted of 111 naive American paintings from the collection of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch, and by the time it closed, 35,000 Frenchmen had flocked to the Grand Palais to see it. In Berlin, 15,000 poured through the Amerika Haus during a six-week showing, and in London the Sunday Times commented admiringly: "We seem here to be offered the image of a vanished people and a faraway mode of life reflected...
...Frenchmen whose livelihood depends on heroin are not the sort to accept substitutes. They are members of a well-organized Corsican underworld headquartered in bawdy, vice-filled Marseille. Turkish sailors smuggle the morphine base ashore and sell it to the mob's hirelings. They in turn deliver it for the final refining process to secret laboratories, which have been discovered in everything from peaceful-looking stone farmhouses to tenement kitchens. The finished heroin is sold on order to the U.S. underworld...
Such is life in Madagascar, the world's fourth largest island, where the phrase "Nothing ever happens around here" is not a complaint but an expression of supreme satisfaction. A French version of Shangrila, Madagascar was a French colony for 73 years, and the 40,000 Frenchmen who remain have seen to it that French food, fashions and pharmacies are almost everywhere. For all that, no one would mistake Madagascar for France. Director of Information Flavien Renaivo describes it as "L'lle-au-Bout-du-Monde" (The Island at the End of the World). Though it lies...
...Aker Group. The operating heads of Starboat, however, turned out to be Israelis who had ordered several commercial ships from Siem and had persuaded him to help them. The tall blond officers who showed up in Cherbourg to take over the boats-and who were mistaken by some Frenchmen for Norwegians-were also Israelis. The Oslo address was just that-a post-office box and nothing more. Said Panama's consul general in France, Jorge Royo: "It was a beautiful piece of corporate legerdemain...