Word: maison
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...Algiers' Maison Blanche airport, hundreds camped out overnight in order to be first in the morning's queue. A woman refugee offered her car for sale for $100 but found no takers. By week's end, there were so many refugees and so much luggage crowded into the stifling waiting room that twelve women fainted and a mother with three children broke down in hysterics. Shocked by the scene, French repatriation officials declared the airport off limits to new refugees until the 4,500 already there could be flown out. In the next two weeks, to deal...
S.A.O. terrorists continued to take Moslem lives in Oran and Algiers. Though badly demoralized by the arrest of its commander in chief, Raoul Salan, the organization stepped up its campaign to keep Europeans from fleeing the country. blew up two airliners at Algiers' Maison Blanche airport; systematically sabotaging buildings and records needed by a future Algerian government, they wrecked a maternity clinic, government offices, three banks and a newspaper plant...
...issue are not to be missed. Just as France's famed gourmet Guide Michelin (see THE WORLD) confers one, two or three stars on France's best restaurants and decrees which are "worth a detour,'' our own chefs have a few specialties de la maison to commend...
Bloodless Collapse. At 1:30 a.m. on the morning of April 23, a plane touched down at Maison Blanche airport outside Algiers, and out stepped Raoul Salan. The city was already in the hands of Salan's fellow plotters: Generals Maurice Challe (who had succeeded Salan in Algeria), Andre Zeller and Edmond Jouhaud. Rushing to his villa in Hydra, Salan kissed his wife, put on his uniform and all 36 of his decorations, and hurried to Challe's headquarters on the Forum...
...York: Baroque, Chambord, Pavilion, "21"; Dallas: La Vieille Varsovie; Los Angeles: Perino's; San Francisco: Fleur de Lys; Chicago: Café Bonaparte, Maison Lafite, Red Carpet; New Orleans: Les Patisseries aux Quatre Saisons...