Word: les
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Tunisian fellaghas (bandits), hard-pressed in their own country, who had crossed the Algerian border; 2) the inflammatory Cairo radio; 3) the extremist nationalist Algerian movement known as the MTLD (Movement for the Triumph of Democratic Liberties). Leader of the MTLD is Ahmed Messali Hadj, now in exile at Les Sables-d'Olonne, France, but reported in contact with Algerian underground leaders, and suspected of being the hand that set off last week's synchronized violence...
...strike was made in Les Landes (The Wastelands), a barren, 110-mile-long strip of sand dunes and pines along the Bay of Biscay inhabited up to now chiefly by woodcutters and sheepherders. Geologists had long suspected that there was oil beneath the pines and sand dunes. But the French had not been able to find...
Four years ago, Esso France-63% owned by Standard Oil Co. (N.J.), 18% by Gulf Oil Corp., 19% by French individuals-got permission from the French government to explore 4,300,000 acres of Les Landes. In exchange, the company agreed to give the French government 10% of the stock in any exploitation company. The venture started inauspiciously. The first well 30 miles south of Bordeaux was dry. Then the rig was moved to the village of Parentis (pop. 998), about 44 miles southwest of Bordeaux...
According to the famous photographer of women, Philippe Halsman, "she has the finest figure of any actress I have known." In Paris a new phrase (les lollos) is being used in brassiere advertisements. In Lon don Sir Jacob Epstein, the famed sculptor, has done a bust of Gina, and in Manhattan, Gossipist Walter Winchell has been gushing about the new "Lollopalooza...
Servan-Schreiber, who speaks fluent English, has become one of France's outstanding political pundits. The son of a co-owner of Les Echos, Paris' oldest financial paper, Servan-Schreiber fled France during the war, trained as a pilot in the U.S., and flew with the Free French Air Force. His first political article, submitted to France's leading daily, Le Monde, caused so much comment that he went into journalism...