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...longer really applies to France, if it ever did. The world's fifth biggest economy is as globalized as any other country. French businesses such as oil giant Total, retailer Carrefour and carmaker Renault are fixtures in the FORTUNE Global 500. President Nicolas Sarkozy (nicknamed l'Américain) openly admires American entrepreneurialism. Last year, his government announced plans to make youngsters bilingual in French and English by the time they finish school. Frenchmen head two bastions of globalization and capitalism, the World Trade Organization and the International Monetary Fund...
...receiving between $30,000 and $40,000 a year. In Spain the going rate for an American star is close to $50,000 a year. Many Americans do not fare nearly so well. In France the average U.S. player earns $700 a month, though a "grand Américain " (a player with exceptional talent) takes home as much as $3,000 a month. In Germany $1,500 a month is considered tops. Players like Wilkins have part-time jobs. Wilkins spends four half-days a week doing promotion for a record store...
...Europe. As publisher of the weekly newsmagazine L'Express, he has constantly attacked Gaullist protectionism as symbolic of "the old France and a petrified Europe." Last week all of France was arguing about a new Servan-Schreiber book that, despite its title, Le Défi Américain (The American Challenge), is far more anti-De Gaulle than anti-American...
That fact is made evident by the tall, whitewashed houses of les Américains that set Gourin apart from the earth-hugging towns near by. The sound of carpentry rattles constantly through the town's tidy streets as 60 houses are currently under construction. Thanks to les Américains, Gourin's construction industry is Brittany's largest, and in the past generation, more than $1,000,000 has been spent on houses alone. Gourin's biggest and finest grocery belongs to an Américain, as do one of the town's three...
...France, the Sûreté mobilized for the man hunt. Paris buzzed with speculation that the kidnaping was an inside job: the timing was too perfect. But it might simply have been a case of a couple of bored hoods deciding to try that novel crime américain for a change of pace. Only a fortnight before, Paris-Presse had told them just how to go about it in a 16-part series dredging up every last detail of the Lindbergh case...