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Geneva's international role derives from its location, in a gap between the Alps and the Jura Mountains. Here Lake Leman, Western Europe's largest, narrows into the foaming torrents of the Rhone River. Wandering tribesmen settled at the lake's edge as early as the Bronze Age. The Romans conquered the place in 120 B.C., and Julius Caesar came to fortify it for his Gallic Wars. In what is now the Place du Bourg-de-Four, where a stone fountain gently splashes through the seasons, the Roman road from Italy once crossed the road to southern France...
...welcomed the Reformation in the 16th century and welcomed as its priest the fierce young French theologian Calvin. He not only preached against sin but organized a * theocratic state that punished it. Wearing jewelry or playing cards was made illegal. A woman caught in adultery was drowned in the Rhone. A theologian who disputed Calvin was burned at the stake. Yet Calvin's teachings attracted followers from all over Europe, and his disciples spread his stern version of Protestantism to France, Scotland and New England...
...this price range. (All wine prices vary from city to city, week to week.) Some Beaujolais bottlings have been reduced by $2, to $4.99. A 1982 Domaine de Cheval Blanc, a pleasant white Bordeaux, costs under $4. La Vieille Ferme '81, a satisfying red or white from the Rhone Valley, is now $3.49. Burka's store in Washington offers a 1981 Verdillac Bordeaux Superior for $3.49 a bottle, and a free wine rack goes with each case...
...that exhaling followed the government's formal takeover last week of Rhone-Poulenc and four other industrial groups, with total 1980 sales of $46 billion, plus 23 banking and financial institutions, and the appointment of 27 men and one woman to head the nationalized firms. Yet those captains of socialist industry looked much like their capitalist predecessors. In fact, at two firms, they were the very same faces, and at most of the others they might as well have been...
...Jean Gandois, 51, who will retain his job as president of Rhone-Poulenc. An experienced industrialist and champion of free enterprise, Gandois had been singled out by France's powerful labor unions as a prime target for sacking because of his job-threatening efforts to phase out unproductive textile plants. That Mitterrand kept Gandois is a clear sign that the unions will not have a free hand in running what some pundits are starting to call "France...