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...Both are 44-year-old Sunday cooks and year-round gourmets-curiously slight of paunch considering their present trade-who once worked as reporters on the now defunct Paris Presse. The solidest bond between the two is the joy they share in debunking the culinary canons of their fellow Frenchmen. They condone serving red wine with fish, accept Israelite gras as only "slightly inferior" to the product of Strasbourg and advise housewives to shorten the cooking hours of those long, loving, simmering stews. They have even dared to question butter's superiority to margarine...
...Fellow Frenchmen rather grudgingly call him "the father of the tower," because of his role in building the Maine-Montparnasse Tower, the most controversial Parisian structure since M. Eiffel's spindly folly. It is Europe's tallest (686 ft.) and costliest ($235 million) office building; last month its shops and boutiques opened, and its office space is already 90% taken...
Britain's real economic problem may not be its politicians but its lazy and inefficient workers and managers. Many Britons apparently do not care if their country is half as rich as France or Germany-as long as they do not have to work as hard as Frenchmen or Germans. Says Koestler: "The same lovable bloke who risked his life on D-day to keep the country free would not lift a finger at the Ford plant at Dagenham to put the country back on its feet...
...debate, negotiations and Utopian dreams, the British government last week gave its final blessing to a project that will physically unite the tight little isle with the European continent. The project: building a tunnel beneath the "great wet ditch" that Britons chauvinistically refer to as the English Channel and Frenchmen call La Manche (The Sleeve). According to the timetable laid out in a government White Paper, on Nov. 15 Britain and France will sign a treaty committing the two nations to support the construction of a 32-mile tunnel between the Kentish village of Cheriton and Fréthun near...
...relentless August holiday. Even so, 5,000 people demonstrated outside the Lip plant after the raid, and 20 were injured. Socialist Leader Francois Mitterrand and others were determined to make political capital out of L'Affaire Lip, even if they had to await la rentrée, Frenchmen's mass return from vacation. On any brand of watch, it was a tense time in France...