Word: frenchness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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FORTY CARATS. Julie Harris stars in this frothy French farce that enters a plausible plea for a single standard of judgment on age disparity in marriage...
SURPRISE has been the only predictable quality in French politics of late, and when the people of France went to the polls this week to choose a new President, they still had some surprises to offer. According to form, ex-Premier Georges Pompidou ran well ahead of the other six candidates. As expected, he failed to attain a majority of the votes cast, necessitating a run-off election on June 15. His opponent then will be Interim President Alain Poher, and that, too, had been anticipated. What was unexpected was Poher's failure to get more than a quarter...
...Automation 69, an international exhibit of new electronic equipment that is being held in Moscow's Sokolniki Park. In a jovial mood, Brezhnev singled out pretty girls for handshakes, embraced Communist exhibitors with Russian bear hugs, and chatted amiably at Western stands. Eying the new equipment at the French pavilion, Brezhnev asked, "Who is cheating whom-we you or you us?" As the French tittered nervously, he added: "That was only a joke, of course." At the West German exhibition, he and Politburo Ideologue Mikhail Suslov were shown a set of unbreakable dishes. Handing a plate to Suslov, Brezhnev...
...Broadway, he continually cautions them to count their change in taxis, to drink only bottled beer in nightclubs ("Mickey Finns are far from uncommon"), and to drive carefully. He observes with a shudder: "Your chances of spilling your blood or dying are three and a half times greater on French roads than on American roads...
...people. In 1926, he won his first Pulitzer for a drawing of a mountain of paper looming over two tiny tablets titled "The Laws of Moses and the Laws of Today"; his second came in 1955, when he showed Uncle Sam marching into a swamp in what was then French Indo-China with the caption, "How Would Another Mistake Help...