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...Guinnesses have an apartment in Manhattan's expensive Waldorf Towers, a villa in Lausanne (with a bowling alley in the basement), a 350-ton yacht that plies the summer Mediterranean, a seven-story house on Paris' Avenue Matignon ("My husband is a perfectionist, and so he would rather build a building than live in an apartment"), a stud farm in Normandy, and a mansion near Palm Beach at Lake Worth, Fla. The Florida property is divided by U.S. Highway A1A, faces the lake on one side and the beach on the other; the two halves are connected...
Then, proceeding to the Premier's study in the Hotel Matignon, Pinay stated his terms: unchallenged control in future over all of France's economic and financial affairs. Replied Debre stiffly: "There is no Pinay policy. There is only the policy of the government and the head of state...
...been a passionate student of British history. Gazing last week at the portraits of every British Prime Minister since Sir Robert Walpole, which decorate the staircase of 10 Downing Street, Debré mused aloud: "Just imagine how long a staircase it would take in the Hôtel de Matignon to hang a portrait of every Prime Minister France has had in the same period...
...Soldier. At the somber, grey-walled Hotel Matignon, official residence of France's Premiers, the Republican Guards now wear dress uniform (white gloves, red epaulets) every day, and treat visitors with a new formality. Senior government officials no longer wander in whenever they feel like an informal chat, nor do they ring up the Premier on a direct line. De Gaulle, who regards the telephone as an intolerable impediment to concentration, has had the only one in his office disconnected...
Volkswagens & Hillmans. All week long the British seemed to consider De Gaulle's austere Hotel Matignon office as a fortress to be stormed. Cutting words crept into the conversation of British officials over the alleged "obstinacy" of the general. The principal British complaint was economic. The British were furious about the Jan. 1 beginning of the European Common Market (France, Germany, Italy, Benelux), which leaves Britain outside...