Word: frenchness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...franc; the Shrivers deplaned as students were battling police by night in the Latin Quarter. As the pro-De Gaulle newspaper Paris-Presse observed, "M. Shriver started from scratch at a time when France was making a clean sweep of the past." The assassination of Robert Kennedy evoked French sympathy for his sister Eunice Shriver. Finally, the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia abruptly ended De Gaulle's cultivation of diplomatic openings to the East. France is looking elsewhere for friends, Charles de Gaulle seems to have rediscovered the U.S., and Shriver has benefited as well as shrewdly exploited the warmer...
...third live vaccine, an injectable one produced in Belgium and grown in rabbit-kidney cells, is being extensively tested by Smith Kline & French Laboratories. Because of its head start in Europe, this may be the world's first licensed rubella vaccine. Additional U.S. testing will probably take a year...
...plants and equipment on U.S. soil is rising sharply. The total crept up from $2.2 billion in 1950 to $7 billion last year, will sprint to $10 billion this year. That may be only the beginning. In a recent speech before a group of U.S. bankers, Jacques Maisonrouge, the French-born head of IBM World Trade Corp., echoed the conviction of many businessmen that the U.S.-European-investment "pendulum is now swinging the other...
...last, the couple become part of a Castroish band of guerrillas reconnoitering the French woods. Here, the on-camera death agonies of dumb animals provide a new twinge of horror. In the final scene, the wife is enthusiastically munching away on a hearty meal. "They mixed the pig with what was left of the English tourists," explains the leader of the guerrillas. "The ones from the Rolls?" she asks casually, with her mouth full. Another example of Go-dardian overkill...
Marguerite Duras is generally considered one of the leading ladies in the new school of French experimental novelists. Some would say the leading lady -although it is hard...