Word: frenchness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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SPECIAL BARDOT (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). In her first U.S. television special, Brigitte sings and dances on location in Paris, London and on the French Riviera...
...16th century, Spain built a buffer province near the headwaters of the Rio Grande to shield her Mexican territories from possible French incursion. Transported to a wild, 600,000-acre land grant, Andalusian settlers turned their arid Tierra Amarilla into a grazing empire that exists today as New Mexico's Rio Arriba county. Bigger than Connecticut and almost as inaccessible as Tibet, the area sprawls southward from the Colorado Rockies to atomic-age Los Alamos. Its western reaches contain the licarilla Apache reservation, and to the east loom the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, where at Easter fanatical Pen-itentes...
...continued to mount until it neared crisis proportions, threatening to unbalance the entire, delicate mobile of the Western monetary system. The money managers and bankers of Europe and the U.S. assembled in Bonn in an emergency session, and solemnly rendered collective judgment that the franc must be devalued. The French braced for the worst, and the money men in capitals around the world prepared for the myriad adjustments in trade and currency flows that a cheaper franc would require. De Gaulle's critics could scarcely contain their glee that, at last, the oracle of the Elysée would...
...larger devaluation would give a greater boost to the French export trade, thus reducing the need for credit to support the franc...
BONN--Devaluation of the French franc appeared almost certain early Friday morning...