Word: german
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Charles André de Gaulle, who never accepts dinner invitations to foreign embassies, had made an exception. Together with his wife Yvonne, the President of France sat down at a ceremonial banquet in the 18th century Hótel de Beauharnais, the palace in which German ambassadors to France have lived for most of the past 150 years. The banquet had a double purpose: to celebrate the return of the palace, seized by the French at the end of World War II, and to set the mood for this week's visit by Chancellor Kurt Kiesinger and Foreign Minister...
Under the great crystal chandeliers of the banquet hall, the waiters kept pouring out the Dom Pérignon '62 and the guests kept pouring out Franco-German friendship. At one particularly ebullient moment, De Gaulle rose with a toast to "the friendship that our two peoples have sealed, guided by reason and emotion alike." Then a messenger arrived from the Quai d'Orsay, bearing an urgent news dispatch for Foreign Minister Maurice Couve de Murville. It was datelined Ravensburg, West Germany, and it froze the frail Couve in his mahogany chair. It also launched...
...obsessed by "rigid, un-European ideas." Stunned, Couve said to an aide: "Power-thirsty! Perhaps Herr Brandt had one glass too many." When De Gaulle heard the news, he was furious. Next morning he summoned Couve to the Elysée Palace, and Couve in turn summoned German Ambassador Manfred Klaiber to demand an explanation. The ambassador was in agony. He apologized profusely for the dispatch, which had been filed by a young German news agency reporter, but insisted that it had misquoted Brandt and distorted his words...
Overplayed Hand. De Gaulle obviously exploited the incident to put Kiesinger on the defensive for this week's visit, during which the German Chancellor is expected to put pressure on France to stop vetoing British entry into the Common Market and stop meddling in such West German affairs as relations with East Germany. But De Gaulle overplayed his hand, making the Germans more determined than ever to press him. "I will not travel to Paris in sackcloth and ashes," said Brandt, "and this applies all the more to the Chancellor. It is high time that...
...pounds of fat looks like, girls! How would you like to carry that around with you all day? Well, that's just what you're doing if you're six pounds overweight." The best way to shed the suet? Out trots LaLanne's white German shepherd carrying the answer on a sign: IT'S GLAMOUR STRETCHER TIME! That cues a pitch for LaLanne's elastic exercise rope ($4), one of the 30 health and beauty products that he peddles. As testimony to the benefits of such items as Jack LaLanne's Toasted Soya...