Word: raoule
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...corporate pieces are skillfully manipulated by an expert chess player named Count Raoul Joseph-Marie de Vitry d'Avaucourt, 64, Pechiney's chief since the end of World War II and the antithesis of the tradition-bound European businessman. De Vitry (he does not use his title) began at the bottom at Pechiney, was decorated for fighting in the Resistance during the war, has made Pechiney's headquarters at 23 Rue Balzac in Paris as modern as his views about industry. "My motto," he says, "consists of two words: audacity and measure...
...government of Premier Pierre Pflimlin, fearing a mass parachute drop on Paris during the May 13, 1958 insurrection in Algeria, placed General Challe in "temporary restraint" at Brest. President de Gaulle assigned him to replace General Raoul Salan as military commander in Algeria...
...Western airmen a World War I formation, long since discarded, known as the Lufbery circle, after Major Raoul Lufbery, U.S. pilot in France's Lafayette Escadrille...
...their hero generals of the first May 13, only Paratrooper Jacques Massu was still on hand, and he last week pointedly renewed his allegiance to De Gaulle. General Raoul Salan now has the innocuous post of commandant of Paris, and 1,500 other officers have been transferred out of Algeria. De Gaulle's Governor General, Paul Delouvrier, constantly reminds the Ultras that "policy is made in Paris, even for Algiers," last week bluntly told "those who would divide us" to "shut up or get out." The Ultras are still strong enough to spoil a birthday, but not to wreck...
Love Is My Profession (Raoul J. Levy; Kingsley International) is easily the peep-showiest, cheap-thrillingest of all the Brigitte Bardot pictures-and probably the best. Topnotch Whodunit Writer Georges Simenon furnished the novel (En Cas de Malheur) on which the film is based. Jean Gabin was hired to top the title. Actress Bardot was signed to bring up the rear in the box-office battle. And the slickest of the big French directors, Claude Autant-Lara (Devil in the Flesh, Rouge et Noir), has contrived to combine all these expensive, volatile elements into a smutty story that is technically...