Word: jeane
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...probably the liveliest intellectual hubbub to hit Paris since the early 1950s, when Existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre startled other leftist intellectuals by defending Stalin's ironfisted regime, in spite of its excesses. This time the furor revolves around a group of young intellectuals, most of them lapsed Marxists, who are now attacking Marxism as an evil, obsolete ideology that leads inevitably to totalitarianism. The "New Philosophers," as they are known, have become overnight celebrities-featured on magazine covers and on TV talk shows. The New Philosophers have no wide popular following and are unlikely to have much impact...
...Actor Jean-Paul Belmondo swings from a chandelier, escapes from menacing samurai and dresses up as a gorilla-all in the line of duty. He plays a professional stunt man in the French film L 'Animal and performs all his feats himself. Co-Star Raquel Welch, 36, portrays his daredevil partner, but relied on a stand-in stunt woman. Awed by Belmondo, Welch says: "He's the embodiment of all the best qualities of the French male...
Packed in a large metal container and invoiced as metaux ouvres (worked metal), the coin shipment was met at Paris' Gare de Bercy by Jean Trottin, 51, a driver for a truck-rental agency. He loaded the container onto a flatbed tractor-trailer truck for delivery to a Bank of France side entrance. Shortly after leaving the station, Trottin found himself cut off by a disabled truck and got out to give a hand. Minutes later the two were surrounded by four pistol-carrying men and ordered into a nearby Peugeot sedan. One gunman took the wheel of Trottin...
Died. Prince Charles of Luxembourg, 49, younger brother of the reigning Grand Duke Jean of Luxembourg; of a heart attack; at his estate in Florence, Italy. A dashing, fun-loving sportsman, Charles was long active in promoting business and industry in his pocket principality. In 1967 he wed Joan Douglas Dillon, daughter of former U.S. Treasury Secretary C. Douglas Dillon...
...Jean-Louis Scherrer staged his fashion rendition of the hunters and the hunted to the sound of baying hounds and music from the film Barry Lyndon. His Loden capes and hunting jackets gave way to evening gowns ornamented with leopard-paw clasps and, finally, to chiffon sheaths in panther prints...