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Guerra complains jokingly of the teasing he received for being a little overweight in September. His most popular nickname was "Michelin...
...School Dean James Voremberg 48 took the first steps yesterday towards implementing last spring's nationally published Michelin report, which called for the first major overhaul of the Law School curriculum since1960...
...years ago, Akron's Firestone Tire & Rubber Co., the second largest U.S. tiremaker, behind Goodyear, was skidding almost uncontrollably toward bankruptcy. Sales to the U.S. auto industry were sharply off, and some of Firestone's most faithful customers, like Ford, had been turning to France's Michelin for radial tires for certain models. In addition, Firestone was reeling from a 1978 agreement with the Government forcing it to begin recalling up to 10 million of its 500 radial because of possibly dangerous defects. Related consumer and class-action lawsuits against the company sought damages...
Gault and Millau, as you know, publish the monthly food and travel magazine Le Nouveau Guide as well as a feisty annual guide to French restaurants, which sometimes makes Michelin's comments seem like soggy croissants. Oh, mes chers, what G-M have to say about l'Amérique is not what you have read in Tocqueville! You will be among a record number of French visitors to les Etats-Unis this year-estimated at 450,000-and should come prepared...
...France has unquestioning faith in the country's nuclear deterrent, La force de frappe. Restaurateur Philippe Deur, 24, has converted the 17th century stone cellar of his establishment, Chéz Gregory, in Arcey not far from the Swiss border, into a bomb shelter that even the Guide Michelin might approve. Behind a 1½-ton steel and reinforced concrete door and enclosed within 4 ft.-thick walls, the room is equipped with a hand-cranked ventilator that sucks in outside air and could filter out radioactive dust. Most evenings, the fare includes steaks, omelets and salads. Come...