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...cash was the desperate goal of the S.A.O.. two big armed robberies in quick succession fitted neatly into the pattern of violence. Six men broke into the offices of the Société Générale Commerciale de 1'Est on Paris' Quai Anatole-France, forced the president to open the safe, and made off with $80,000 in gold and currency. In Beaune, 170 miles southeast of Paris, thieves looted the safe-deposit boxes of a local bank, getting away with an estimated $2,000,000 in cash and jewelry...
...experts as Frank Bowles, president of the College Entrance Examination Board. With himself as dean, he rounded up such trustees as Director Ian F. Eraser of the American Library in Paris. For a campus, the American Church in Paris contributed its neo-Gothic Activities Building on the Seine-side Quai d'Orsay...
Unite or Perish. Britain's passage to Europe began in earnest on a grey October day in Paris last year. Behind the closed doors of a high-ceilinged conference room in the Quai d'Orsay, Britain's Lord Privy Seal, Edward Richard George Heath, formally notified ministers of the six Common Market nations that his government had reached "a great decision, a turning point in our history." In a deep, resonant voice, Heath declared: "We desire to become full, wholehearted and active members of the European Community in its widest sense, and to go forward with...
...cold in the head." But as France's problems-notably in Indo-China and with the European Defense Community-grew worse, Dillon stepped up to the challenge of his assignment. He and Phyllis spent an hour daily with a French tutor; within weeks Dillon was visiting the Quai d'Orsay without an interpreter. In a social swim where lavish entertainment was a matter of courses...
...they sat down in the Quai d'Orsay's gilded Salon de Beauvais in Paris to work out an allied reply to the latest Communist gambits, it was U.S. Secretary of State Dean Rusk who was most eager for action. All the ministers agreed that, if need be, the West would have to risk war. But all still hoped to find a formula for peace; all now recognized that major negotiations with Russia-perhaps even a summit meeting-would be necessary before the year...