Word: pr
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Strictly speaking, the Société Monétgasque de Banque et de Méttaux Prétcieux, run by swarthy Greek Promoter Constantin Liambey, is only one of 13 banks in Monaco. But it had this advantage over most of the others: some $2,500,000 of Monaco's state funds were deposited in its coffers. In the eight years since he opened his bank, the favor of autocratic Prince Rainier and his top advisers had made johnny-come-lately Liambey one of Monaco's richest...
This week France celebrates Bastille Day once again, with a squeal of accordions in village squares, dancing in the streets, and a dazzle of fireworks over Paris. But in the Left Bank cafés of Saint-Germain-des-Prés, gravitational center for France's intellectuals, there is an uncertain note in the gaiety. In the grave and troubled summer of 1955, France is unsure of itself and of its mission...
Heir to this proud tradition, the intellectual in France today has the authority of a statesman or a guru. In the sidewalk cafés of Saint-Germain-des-Prés, crew-cut young French students hotly dispute the exact degree of "despair" advocated by Existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre or his former disciple Albert Camus. Sometimes the great men themselves appear at the Café de Flore or the Deux Magots. When they do not, their movements, habits, tastes and idiosyncrasies are reported as if they were movie stars. By others, who call them "the mandarins." the French intellectuals...
...intellectual world of Paris, which is both hothouse and hotbed, the Catholics are often admired as novelists in spite of their message. For the dominant mood of St. Germain-des-Prés is Doubt, not Faith...
Then came the bombs. The Maroc-Presse was a special target; the managing editor was threatened, the executive editor driven from Morocco by bombings and machine-gun attempts on himself and his family. The counterterrorists operated with the obvious sympathy of diehard colon organizations such as the Présence Française. When one suspected killer eluded police questioning, it was discovered later that he had driven off in a red sports car belonging to a prominent physician and Présence Française leader and had holed up for several weeks at the physician's estate...