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...country could well capture West Germany's place as the world's fourth strongest economic power (after the U.S., the Soviet Union and Japan). In the meantime, the report predicts that per capita income will rise from $3,600 a year to nearly $6,000, making Frenchmen wealthier than just about anyone but Americans and Japanese...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Pompidou on the Run | 1/22/1973 | See Source »

...average "white" because of his "chemically raised foodstuffs," little mention is made of the fact that the Anishinabe (Chippewa) was 6 ft. tall in 1700. The French called us "Sauters" among other names, meaning "Jumpers," for our ancestors went "bounding" through the forest and the short Frenchmen could not keep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 11, 1972 | 12/11/1972 | See Source »

Almost as long as there have been scientists, man has been trying to measure the speed of light. In 1638, Galileo stationed a brace of lantern bearers on hilltops and tried to time their flashes-with no luck at all. Since then, Danes, Frenchmen and Americans have succeeded in narrowing down the figure to generally accepted modern-day figures, but the search for greater precision still goes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: More Light on Light | 12/4/1972 | See Source »

...minutes, far longer than the five to nine minutes allotted to foreplay by 27% of the men and women. About 45% of the women (but only 19% of the men) said that they prefer to make love in total darkness. According to the report, the volubility of Frenchmen extends even to lovemaking. The majority of men talk during intercourse, while their partners are more silent-so much so that 64% of the men expressed the wish that the women would speak up more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Never on Monday | 11/6/1972 | See Source »

...bewilderment, to the reactions of the Germans, to the recollections of the citizens of Clermont-Ferrand, culminating in the newsreel of Marshall Petain 'offering his person' to France as he surrenders her to Germany. As the scratched words of the newsreel play on. Ophuls alternates between the aging Frenchmen of the present to the faces of the past...

Author: By Alan Heppel, | Title: Personal Histories, Collective Shame | 10/20/1972 | See Source »

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