Word: raymonds
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...elections in March will reflect to what extent French president Valery Giscard d'Estaing, prime minister Raymond Barre and their centrist political cohorts can convince the citizens of France that they are not simply the chief executives of an omnipotent industrial bourgeoisie. They must prove that although liberal parliamentary government and favorable business conditions go hand in hand, this does not indicate big-business manipulation. Although many issues cloud the political scene in France, the ethical legitimation of the present form of authority stands above all others in importance...
With elections only a month away, France's bleak wintry landscape was suddenly abloom with bright billboards last week. The most striking campaign poster was one showing a sturdy tree with a caption calling for CONFIDENCE IN BARRE. The tree referred to a celebrated comparison made by Premier Raymond Barre, who had likened his efforts to boost the French economy to nurturing a tree. "Obstinately but durably, the tree grows little by little," Barre assured French voters. On the other hand, Socialism and Communism blow in like a "typhoon," wreaking havoc in the whole forest...
...over into this screenplay is not at all clear. One of those great rumors has it that Faulkner, who was out in Hollywood taking his day in the sun touching up this script, could make neither heads nor tails of the plot-line and got in touch with novelist Raymond Chandler for some clues. "Beats me if I can figure the story out," Chandler said. Maybe your luck will be better. Or maybe you won't much care, since Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall, as the undauntable Philip Marlowe and the seductive older sister, make for such an entertaining romantic...
Abandoning the near-Olympian distance he had maintained up to now from the bitter political skirmishing, Giscard attacked the left headon. Pointing out some of the successes achieved by Premier Raymond Barre's policy of cautious stimulation-a December trade surplus, four months of falling unemployment and a slowing rate of inflation (0.3% for December)-Giscard argued that only the center and right were capable of leading the country out of its lingering economic malaise. "If we want to be cured," he thundered, "we must choose the right doctor. If we choose the easy way out, the economy will...
...People's Liberation Army band struggled through some unfamiliar Bizet and Berlioz at a 600-guest banquet for visiting French Premier Raymond Barre. China's Vice Premier, Teng Hsiao-p'ing, paid a state visit to Burma, his first trip abroad since he emerged as Peking's No. 3 man last July. Phan Hien, Viet Nam's Deputy Foreign Minister and chief diplomatic troubleshooter, was in Peking on a delicate mission. Teng Ying-ch'ao, 75, the revered widow of Premier Chou Enlai, departed on a good-will visit to Cambodia, and returned...