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...disasters. Sinking swiftly to great depths without leaving as much as a trace to guide searchers, Israel's Dakar went down somewhere between Cyprus and Haifa and France's Minerve only about 25 miles from her home berth at Toulon. Their entire crews-69 Israelis and 52 Frenchmen -were lost with them...
Since the Peace Corps, a few Americans, Canadians, and scattered other nationalities have come upcountry. Adzope had four volunteers this summer, who taught or traveled to outlying villages giving health lectures, advising mothers, and administering vaccinations. The unmarried Frenchmen date the girls, but they're lonely...
...mystique of gold is not fully grasped by most Americans, who lack the Midas complex of Charles de Gaulle and other foreigners. McGeorge Bundy was not quite right when he cracked that only the greedy, the frightened, country folk and Frenchmen love gold. Anybody who has seen his fortunes dissipated by recurrent invasions, inflations and devaluations views gold as a safer haven than any paper money. Men die to dig gold out of two-mile-deep mines and then bury it in hermetically sealed vaults because, when all other currencies fail, gold can buy anything, anywhere. Particularly prized by political...
...Folies-Bergere, and 26,000 U.S. residents in France are still permitted to pay De Gaulle's taxes. One heartening note: a poll by the French Institute of Public Opinion reported that only 27% of the French think that the U.S. is a military threat to Europe. Some Frenchmen even profess to like Americans. Expatriates often hear such remarks as: "We think the general is being too tough on you, and we don't all share his feelings." Such remarks are usually passed late at night in back alleys, and it is difficult to tell whether...
...earlier been in Venezuela for Jersey and in Japan as president of Esso Sekiyu, the Japanese affiliate. Choosing as many capable executives as possible from Europe, Campbell ended up with a mix that includes 121 Americans, four Canadians, one Venezuelan, 86 Britons, 21 Germans, 16 Frenchmen, 14 Italians, ten Belgians, ten Norwegians, nine Swedes, eight Dutchmen, two Danes, two Swiss, one Finn and one Maltese, who all work comfortably together with English as their lingua Esso. Jersey resettled them with even a pamphlet of helpful translations: diapers in England are called nappies, and a hot-water heater is a geyser...