Word: rhone
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...President of France, the usually equable Vincent Auriol, was almost in tears. "Messieurs, les Ambassadeurs," he cried, before a French audience gathered last week for the opening of the Rhone Valley's Donzere-Mondragon dam, built with the help of $33 million from the U.S. Addressing himself directly to the assembled foreign diplomatic corps, which included the U.S.'s James C. Dunn, Auriol launched into an emotional refutation of recent U.S. criticism of France...
Shock Treatment. In Lyon, France, Pierre Pellegrin, 32, grew tired of life and threw himself into the Rhone, shiveringly told police after he swam out: "If the water had been ten degrees warmer, I don't suppose I'd be here...
...Guerre), Antoine Pinay was one of the 569 French parliamentarians who voted state powers to Marshal Pétain at Vichy in 1940. But Pinay managed to avoid collaborationist charges by his excellent record as wartime mayor of Saint-Chamond in the Loire. He operates a tannery in the Rhone town of Saint-Symphorien-sur-Coise. It was the conservative look of Premier Pinay which attracted the Gaullist right wing...
Before each meeting, the two advisers, Seymour O. Simches, instructor in Romance Languages, and Robert F. Metzdorf, Cataloguer in Houghton Library, choose the particular type of wine to be tasted; Rhone, Bordeaux, Burgundy, or Rhine wine, and order it from either Boston or New York importers...
...years had France seen such rain. Farmers slogged stolidly out to their fields to harvest the sodden crops, mill the grain and send it on its way. In little (pop. 4,400) Pont-Saint-Esprit, perched on a bluff along the River Rhone in southern France, the townspeople sat glumly in their bistros sipping wine, watching the swollen river slip past the medieval bridge which gives the town its name...