Word: presse
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...France knew of the impending devaluation. As far as France and the rest of the world were concerned, Pompidou was about to leave Paris on holiday at week's end. So artful was the camouflage that only a single French newsman remained behind, lounging in the press department of Pompidou's Elysée Palace and flicking through the President's itinerary for a visit to Corsica. Then a stream of Citroën limousines began to disgorge Cabinet ministers for a hastily called meeting late Friday afternoon...
...made a mockery of practically every state-prescribed quota. By the end of April, for example, only 11% of this year's construction targets had been completed. There is a shortage of many consumer goods. In a rare bit of candor for Czechoslovakia's tightly supervised press, the weekly Tribuna reported last week that in a recent poll, 69.7% of the young people interviewed saw the future pessimistically...
...other women: freshness and innocence." As he spoke, he stroked the hands, hair and knees of the silent, smiling brunette by his side. After a career of elaborate bachelorhood spun out against a kaleidoscopic backdrop of beautiful faces and figures, Publisher Hugh Hefner, 43, was telling the press that his long-elusive heart had been captured at last. The girl was Barbara Benton, a svelte 19-year-old California coed who graced Playboy's July cover and is already starring in her first film, What's a Nice Girl Like You Doing in a Business Like This...
...favorite surgical knife and shouting "I'll kill him! I'll kill him!" about anyone with whom he happened to be angry. Another was that he had prayed that "a 727, loaded to capacity, would crash into International Hotel" so that he could be seen by the press, silhouetted against the flames...
...Jerry Lee Lewis, 33, who was riding high in 1957 with Whole Lot of Shakin' Going On and Great Balls of Fire, was riding low a year later when, on a tour of England, the press discovered that he had married his 13-year-old cousin-fully five months before divorcing his second wife. After that, and some other calamities, he plugged along until about a year and a half ago, when his records caught on big in the Country & Western field. At an appearance last spring at The Scene in Manhattan, where he received a standing ovation, tears...