Word: gare
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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CHARLES DE GAULLE. 8.2 million passengers last year. Averages 250 landings and take-offs daily. One runway, 22 airlines. Delays: minimal. Accessibility: good. Allow 40 min. to 1Y2 hr. for 20-mile ride downtown by car or cab ($10 to $12, beware plun-derous drivers). City bus ($1.75) to Gare de 1'Est every 15 min. or Air France bus ($2.50) to Porte Maillot every 20 min. Rail trip ($ 1.75) to Gare du Nord every 15 min. Flow Through: smoothly futuristic. Spacious waiting lounges. Plentiful baggage carts. Sidewalk check-ins, or passengers take escalators from entrance to check...
Operating on a shoestring budget out of storefront headquarters near Paris' Gare de Lyon railroad station, M.S.F. has sent medical teams flying off to the most remote corners of the world. Almost as soon as it gets word of a medical emergency, M.S.F. responds. A duty officer at the cramped headquarters scans his file cards and quickly puts together an appropriate team that usually consists of a doctor, a surgeon and an anaesthetist, as well as nurses or paramedics. By telephone or telegraph, the volunteers are found wherever they happen to be in the world; travel and expense money...
...casual Parisian passerby, the contraptions look like smokestacks or versions of Colonnes Morris, pillars handy for posting theatrical notices. Actually, the two 16.5-ft.-tall towers just erected in the Gare de Lyon section of Paris are huge, electrically driven vacuum cleaners designed to suck in dust, filter it and blow clean air out the top. "Clear the air! Wash the wind! Clean the sky!" as T.S. Eliot put it. If tests made of the surrounding air show that the towers really work, 50 to 100 more may be set up around the city. But that would require more electricity...
...remembered as the original of that perennial threat to shaky governments, "the man on horseback." Adoring crowds threw themselves on the tracks at the Gare de Lyon to keep him from leaving Paris. Three hundred songs were written about him, and copies by the thousands were hawked in the streets. Fast-selling lines of dishes, pens and bric-a-brac carried his portrait to the consuming public. On Bastille Day 1886, when he rode down the Champs-Elysées on his great black horse, all France lay at his feet. Indeed, on three occasions General Georges Ernest Jean Marie...
Ermacora was less stingy with acquaintances or even strangers. A blind man in the Gare St. Lazare came in for a $10,000 windfall. A prostitute received $30,000 to buy an apartment for herself and her daughter. A tailor got an order for 25 suits, all picked up by men other than Ermacora; most found big-denomination bank notes tucked into the pockets. In all, his munificence came close...