Word: lix
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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LIKE all French Finance Ministers, Félix Gaillard occupies quarters in the Palace of the Louvre, and en route to his private dining salon passes through the state apartment of Napoleon III with its massive chandeliers, velvet drapery and columns, caryatids and cherubs encrusted with gold leaf. "Ugly, isn't it?" remarked Gaillard cheerfully to a TIME reporter. "All the gold I own is on these walls." This week Félix Gaillard arrives in the U.S. See FOREIGN NEWS, France's Daring Young...
...brought it off was the brilliant young (37) technocrat Finance Minister Félix Gaillard, who made it clear that either France would live closer to its means or that he would quit. He first demanded that his fellow ministers slash 600 billion francs ($1.7 billion) from their next year's spending plans (TIME, Aug. 12). The Defense Minister spoke reassuringly of sticking "to my best estimates." Retorted Gaillard: "I cannot accept any estimates, I need guarantees." Sighed the Labor Minister: "He must settle-this crisis at any cost. If we allow Félix Gaillard to walk...
Sitting at the side of Premier Maurice Bourgès-Maunoury, his friend and frequent tennis opponent, was the young man entrusted with saving France from economic folly. Handsome, lanky Félix Gaillard at 37 is France's youngest Finance Minister of the century. A man who comes from the cognac country, wears the Rosette of the Resistance, plays clean classic piano and dirty rock 'n' roll, Politician Gaillard is a man with a mission. For his colleagues he drew a lucid and gloomy picture...
Biggest and most influential political movement in Black Africa is the Rassemblement Démocratique Africain, led by stocky, black-skinned Félix Houphouet-Boigny (TIME, Feb. 13, 1956), an Ivory Coast chieftain who was once ready to fight for independence, but now calls for "self-government within the French Union." A year ago, when Socialist Guy Mollet was named Premier of France, 51-year-old Félix Houphouet-Boigny became the first West African ever to sit in a French Cabinet. Ever since, Houphouet-Boigny and Mollet's Minister of France Overseas, 46-year-old Gaston...
Tightening the command of his internal-security forces, Perón shifted the federal police from the Interior Ministry to a new Federal Security Council headed by General Félix Maria Robles, a trusted chum. In his new post Robles also bosses the coast guard, border patrol and provincial police...