Word: quai
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Despite raised eyebrows at the Quai d'Orsay, Nicole announced her appointment as Cardin's publicity director soon after Husband Herve Alphand was recalled from his post as French ambassador. Explained Nicole, who has been on the International Best-Dressed List for six years: "It is time that someone did something for Frenchwomen. One should give them the possibility, even on a small budget, to have the stamp of a great couturier...
Partly as a result of such well-publicized escapades, the congressional traveler nowadays is more likely to head for the Quai d'Orsay than the Folies-Bergère. In 1965 more than 100 Senators and Congressmen-roughly one-fifth of the combined membership-will have traveled outside the country, ranging round the globe from Warsaw to Wellington, Delhi to Danang...
...territory along the Atlantic coast and to take everything west of the Appalachians for itself. It was clear, Jay concluded, that France regarded its alliance with the U.S. as a license to swindle its junior partner-a conclusion powerfully supported, says Historian Morris, by documents preserved in the Quai d'Orsay that spell out a French scheme to split up the 13 states and return some of them to England...
...Nickel, whose sales of $53 million make it the world's third largest producer (after Canada's International Nickel and Falconbridge Nickel) of a scarce, strategically important metal. While the two governments are squabbling over the company's activities, the protagonists range far beyond the Quai d'Orsay and Foggy Bottom. They include Fidel Castro, Mao Tse-tung, former French Premier Rene Mayer and those storied bankers, the Rothschilds...
Galled Gauls. At first it was mainly a case of rear-guard fighting. Professors and newspaper columnists have long defended their language's purity against such ugly expressions as le weekend and le drugstore. With the coming of the Fifth Republic, defense evolved into offense. Next year the Quai d'Orsay will spend $101 million (up 25% since 1964) for the propagation of French culture and language abroad. France pays for the distribution of French books and magazines, provides 13,000 university scholarships for foreign study in France, and supports 32,000 French teachers in former colonies from...