Word: parisian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...stopped, not deviating because of incidents, and without waiting for any formula or combination to alleviate the responsibility that is his duty and his honor." Looking much like the parents of the bride, the De Gaulles stood beside the Kennedys on a reception line as 1,000 pillars of Parisian society elbowed each other for a chance to shake hands...
Despite the high caloric content of his Parisian dining, the President had room for two breakfasts?one, of orange juice, rolls and coffee, gulped down at a strategy conference aboard his plane?on the morning of his flight to Vienna. Despite the wet weather, more than 70,000 Austrians turned out along Kennedy's 15-mile journey from Schwechat to Alte Hofburg, the palatial residence of Austrian President Dr. Adolf Scharf. Khrushchev, grinning his cordial peasant best, had not done nearly so well; the Soviet leader drew fewer than 50.000 during his ceremonial motorcade to visit Scharf. Along...
...Alexandre, the city's leading hairdresser, received a top-secret letter from the White House with a lock of Jackie's hair enclosed, and a request for his services during the forthcoming visit (see MODERN LIVING). To the Parisian branch of the cosmetician Harriet Hubbard Ayer went another urgent request, mustering out Europe's leading makeup expert, Nathalie, for the duration of the Kennedy trip...
That night Jackie abandoned her all-American wardrobe and appeared at Versailles in yet another awesome hairdo and a bell-skirted gown?the supreme creation of French Designer Hubert de Givenchy. The Parisian press was ecstatic. APOTHEOSIS AT VERSAILLES! said France-Soir, correctly. "Charmante! Ravissante!" chorused re porters...
From Japan to Britain, radios had reported the gathering tension at Canaveral, the blast-off and the brief, successful flight. Congratulatory messages poured in from the world's capitals. Few foreigners shared the cool scorn of the Parisian who growled: "The Americans are crazy, and the Russians are crazy, too." Nor did anyone west of the Iron Curtain echo Radio Prague, which called Shepard's flight "scientifically primitive." In Europe and the U.S. most space spectators agreed with Leonard J. Carter, secretary of the British Interplanetary Society: "The Americans had the right way of doing it. Unlike...