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...clockwork heist that lasted just two minutes. In that brief time, the four stickup men netted what was probably the biggest holdup haul in French history: $3,540,000. But the question that bedeviled Frenchmen last week was what in the world the culprits thought they could do with their loot. The bandits had made off with newly minted, neatly packaged, bronze-colored ten-franc coins-1,770,000 of them, to be exact-that weighed 17.7 tons and would require nearly 30 cu. yds. of space merely to store. If the four bandits each spend...
...bankrupt French company that had tried-under the guidance of Ferdinand de Lesseps, supervisor of the Suez Canal project-to trench the 50 miles between the seas. By the time the C.U.C.I. folded in 1889, it had spent $287 million dollars and the lives of some 20,000 Frenchmen and Chinese, Irish and West Indian laborers. The chief killers, as generations of schoolchildren have been told, were malaria and yellow fever...
...French about the prospect of a Socialist government with Communist members. It is an adventure that no longer frightens many of them. Even some businessmen who once recoiled in horror at the idea seem resigned to living with it. It is Barre's job to help Giscard convince Frenchmen otherwise, because so far they have not been impressed by Giscard alone...
...ordeal of Mme. Claustre continued to rankle in French public opinion. She and her husband, flown by a special Mystère 20 jet sent by Giscard, evaded hordes of newsmen in Paris. The couple immediately checked into a clinic for a series of intensive tests. But many Frenchmen were still asking why the affair had taken so long-and cost so much horror and humiliation-to resolve...
...ordinary Frenchmen, Prince Jean de Broglie appeared the very model of titled rectitude. Descended from one of the country's most illustrious families, De Broglie became a Resistance hero during World War II, served under Charles de Gaulle in various ministerial posts and was a key member of the French team that negotiated Algerian independence in 1962. He was a former secretary-general of Valéry Giscard d'Estaing's Independent Republican Party and had held a seat in the National Assembly since...