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...Shut up, you moron!" roared Gaston Defferre, 56, a Socialist Deputy and mayor of Marseille. Those were fighting words to Gaullist Deputy René Ribière, 45, and after all the political caterwauling had died down in France's National Assembly, he confronted the Socialist to demand satisfaction. Despite friends' pleas to forget the nonsense, Ribière chose swords, they both chose seconds and met next day at noon in suburban Neuilly. "This is not a comedy," growled Defferre. "I am not going to stop until I'm hors de combat." "Oh, really?" gulped Ribi...
Opposition candidates have been quick to capitalize on the crisis. "In the past," says Marseille's popular Socialist mayor, Gaston Defferre, "people voted for De Gaulle because he represented security. This is no longer true. Gaullism has failed the country socially, financially and economically." Asks Liberal Catholic Leader Lecanuet, a resolute pro-American: "Why doesn't France progress? We cannot have a force de frappe, a policy of prestige and national ambition, and at the same time build 600,000 housing units each year...
Twenty of the patients died, some within 24 hours after entering the hospital. Autopsies revealed crippling damage to the heart muscle and also the liver. Searching for some common denominator, Drs. Yves Morin, Andre Tétu and Gaston Mercier found that they all drank an uncommon amount of beer-a Rabelaisian average of twelve quarts...
...supporting Dreyfus in his epic battle with the French army, it lost half its circulation, but the readers slowly returned. On the eve of World War I, the wife of Finance Minister Joseph Caillaux, offended by the paper's attacks on her husband, shot and killed Editor Gaston Calmette. During...
...front page under a banner headline; inside, the paper devoted the better part of a page to a description of his feat, and postrace interviews with Ryun and ex-Record Holders Michel Jazy and Roger Bannister. "I doubt," boasts L'Équipe's editor in chief, Gaston Meyer, "that any American daily covered Ryun's record any more thoroughly than...