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...said Faure, "there is no real opposition on the big problems." His proposition: "a temporary union" of left-and right-wing moderates. The right-wingers let it be known that Mendès was anathema to them, but hinted that they might accept a Socialist like Mollet or Christian Pineau for Premier...
...weeks after the fall of Pierre Mendès-France, France was still without a government. President Coty had gone to the right and gone to the left; three men (Antoine Pinay, Pierre Pflimlin and Christian Pineau) had failed to satisfy the Assembly; this week a fourth, Edgar Faure (Mendès-France's Finance Minister), was trying, and once again the air was filled with the bickering, squabbling and jockeying that characterizes the National Assembly of the Fourth Republic...
...been forced to do so many times before (ten), the President sent out summonses for les pressentis-the politicians who, theoretically, are eligible to form a new cabinet. First, by custom, came the representative of the party which brought down the government, the Socialists. Would Monsieur Christian Pineau care to try? No thanks, replied Monsieur Pineau. One by one came les pressentis from the other parties: General de Gaulle's R.P.F., the Independents, the Catholic M.R.P., the Radical Socialists (who are neither radical nor socialist, but right-wing...
...Connolly beat out are infield hit, Allan walked, and catcher Don Daley rescued two runs with a hard drive that bounded off Kev Reilly's leg into center field. And in the following inning Northeastern made it 4 to 3 when (again with two out) Red Kelly followed Fran Pineau's single with a slice down the right field line that went for three bases. Kelly was thrown out, Walt Greeley to Cavanaugh to Wade, trying to stretch...
...hotels such as the Miramar, room & board was about $8 a day. In smaller places a tourist could eat and sleep well for as little as $2 to $4 a day. All hotels had stern instructions from the government not to gouge U.S. tourists. Said Minister of Transport Christian Pineau: "[Americans] are no longer all millionaires . . . We will have to show [them] a good time at a reasonable price...