Word: montes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bright, and distant Mont Blanc was clearly visible to the delegates in Geneva last week. They were in town for the long-awaited International Trade Organization preparatory conference on breaking down trade barriers. Inside the huge Palais des Nations, the visibility was much lower. A procedural matter got the Americans and the British snarled up right away...
...readers know French Novelist Roger Vercel for his Tides of Mont St.-Michel, a fictional Cook's Tour of the famed medieval island abbey off Brittany. Less ambitious but just as colorful is the latest Vercel novel published in the U.S.-the story of a rich, gone-to-seed Breton family who live at Plangomeur, a mansion not far from Mont St.-Michel...
Citizens of all sorts and sizes have read The Education of Henry Adams, his Mont Saint Michel and Chartres, and the several collections of Adams' witty, cranky, sardonic letters (TIME, Jan. 20). But the History of the United States during the Administrations of Jefferson and Madison has been left almost wholly to the professionals-for the simple and ample reason that it is nine volumes long...
...Contentment. To Americans, Quebec's best-known resort is Mont Tremblant, where lodge, inn and 60 cottages are laid out like a French Canadian village. Joseph ("Emperor Joe") Ryan, Philadelphia-born grandson of famed Thomas Fortune Ryan, has sunk $2,000,000 in Mont Tremblant since 1938, now grosses $600,000 a year from rates ranging from $7 to $14 a day (with meals...
...Near Mont Tremblant's slopes and mile-long chair lift is the plushy Manoir Pinoteau, which features French cooking. A short run away is a more typical Laurentian resort: Gray Rocks Inn, a sprawling, homey frame house where the food is substantial, the rates low ($5 to $7 a day, including meals), and good slopes and trails start at the back door. There, as in most of the lodges, expert and duffer alike turn out for ski-school lessons at rates which average $2 for a half-day. There are scores of others, from the stucco Chalet Cochand...