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Fadinq Mirages. For a price tag of $30 billion, or roughly 5% of the French gross national product over the next six years, Frenchmen will be buying a beefed-up conventional force and a total of 62 needle-nosed Mirage IV bombers to tote the Gaullist bombette at a relatively slow 1,200 m.p.h. over a range of 1 ,000 miles. When the Mirages fade into obsolescence around 1968-69, they will be supplanted by SSBS missiles (the sibilant stands for sol-sol-balistique-strategique, or ground-to-ground-ballistic-strategic), to be lodged in hard-base silos in France...
Cancer, said the doctors in 1821. But Frenchmen have always suspected that it was his British captors on St. Helena who slew Napoleon Bonaparte at the age of 51. Now a British scientist, Hamilton Smith, thinks he has proved it: he subjected samples of Napoleon's hair to nuclear bombardment in Britain's Harwell reactors and found arsenic! Only, being an Englishman, he says that his associates believe it was Napoleon's French chamberlain, General Charles-Tristan de Montholon, who poisoned the Emperor. French historians hooted down the theory as so much old lace. The hairs were...
Giscard's order is primarily aimed at the small bistros serving businessmen, Frenchmen dining en famille and centime-counting tourists. In Paris, bistro prices have risen as much as 50% in a year, while wholesale-food prices climbed only 2.8%. Such flagrant padding is noticeably adding to the growing disenchantment of many tourists with France. But bistro owners are nevertheless enraged at the new order. "French culinary art is being suffocated by government intervention," said a Parisian restaurateur. Another suggested that there are ways to get around the order: "You want to increase the price of tournedos...
Perpetual Glory. As the trial dawned in Toulouse last week, millions of Frenchmen were still reeling from what one proud Corsican politician called the "idiocy" of Lyndon Johnson's recent reference to Napoleon as "a son of Italy." Hundreds of irreverent students dressed up in Napoleonic hats and racing shorts pedaled endlessly around the courthouse. Inside, three costumed judges bravely subdued their grins, prepared to try the defamation of Napoleon under the Code Napoleon...
...billion business that employs 1,000,000 Frenchmen was hurt by Europe's highest prices, frequent rudeness and poor service. "We have the reputation," commented Paris Match, "of being the least welcoming people on the Continent." The number of foreign tourists has increased-from 5,000,000 in 1958 to an estimated 6,500,000 this year-but they have cut their average stay from six days to only three, and spending has dropped 20% along the Riviera. To save on hotel and restaurant bills many visitors took the do-it-yourself approach to tourism, camping out in their...