Word: gabriele
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...executive and their staff drive cars marked with special European license plates, send their children to the European high school, and, except for accents, have lost many of their national traits or concerns. Of all these new civil servants, still the most tireless at 72 is Jean Omer Marie Gabriel Monnet, the most dedicated international ist of them all-although at the same time he remains as thoroughly French as Cognac, the town of his birth...
Primitive Pooling. Monnet's tough peasant heritage is stamped in his broad face and his short, stocky, muscular body. His paternal grandfather, a farmer-mayor of Cognac, lived to the age of 102. Jean Monnet's mother lived to be 87, his father, Jean Gabriel, to 83. A staunch conservative. Jean Gabriel used to warn young Jean that "every new idea is bound to be a bad idea." There is no evidence that Jean paid any attention...
...Jean Gabriel Monnet founded the brandy firm of J. G. Monnet & Co., groomed Jean and his brother Gaston to be his international salesmen. There was to be no nonsense of a university education for his sons. And in the local Cognac high school, Jean showed little intellectual promise anyway: he had, and still has, a poor memory, and floundered in the rote system of French instruction. At 18, Jean was sent off to Canada to peddle brandy in the raw Canadian boom towns of 1906 such as Calgary, Moose Jaw and Medicine Hat. He was pleasantly surprised by the absence...
BROTKERLY LOVE (282 pp.)-Gabriel Fielding-Morrow...
...home for delinquent girls) bedpans. On Memorial Day, a mob of 300 set upon 75 cops in a fist-swinging riot at Griffith Park started by a hassle over a teen-ager who had stolen a ride on a merry-go-round. Some weeks later in suburban San Gabriel, when police tried to enforce a ban against dancing after midnight. 300 guests at a wedding party swarmed to the attack with beer cans, whisky bottles, and the remnants of the nuptial feast...