Word: les
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...days Halleck worked to whip his forces into line. Absentees were summoned to Washington from as far away as Warsaw and Moscow (only authorized absentee: Washington's golfing, honeymooning Republican Jack Westland). For 35 Republicans who were doubtful, or definitely in favor of overriding, Halleck and G.O.P. Whip Les Arends had quiet warning ("Either you go along with the President, or you don't") and promises from Interior Secretary Fred Seaton to revive eight politically strategic projects in next year's budget. Virginia Democrat Howard Smith, ever the foe of spending, whispered that he might be able...
...Quebec universities to accept sorely needed federal grants, made much sense in French Canada. Quebec, over the eventful 200 years since England's Wolfe beat France's Montcalm on the Plains of Abraham, has kept its identity, even prospered as a French enclave in the continent of les Anglais and the Yankees. A major reason was just this sort of cohesive orneriness...
...Juan-les-Pins was a raucous jungle every night with nightclub inanities broadcast through the streets by loudspeakers. The six miles of beach at Le Lavandou were body-covered; the bodies were oil-covered; the oil, sand-covered. At bohemian St.-Tropez, with fewer than 1,000 guest rooms, some 20,000 tourists nevertheless found shelter. Françoise Sagan left for the relative calm of Normandy; Brigitte Bardot was pregnant. Saint-Trop has nearly as many candlelit cellar clubs as the Left Bank, and the vogue has spread along the coast as far as Nice, where the Gorilla Club...
France Isolated. By far the most important stop on the President's itinerary, because of the nature of the problems to be resolved, was France. De Gaulle, in seclusion last week at his home in Colombey-les-Deux-Eglises, was planning long hours of talk alone with Eisenhower. Not since De Gaulle came to power 15 months ago, to almost universal cheers inside and outside France, had he found himself so isolated. France had either antagonized or felt itself wronged by all its neighbors and allies. U.S. jets have had to abandon their French NATO bases...
...Possessors (Filmsonor Intermondia: Lopert) are all members of one big unhappy family who made their first appearance in Maurice Druon's Les Grandes Families, a 1948 Prix Goncourt novel based on some of the Two Hundred Families that presumably ruled France between the two World Wars...