Word: ricaine
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...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...
When it comes to crime, Frenchmen take a back seat to no one-except in kidnaping, which French criminals apparently rate a U.S. specialty. The French do not even have a name for it, use the U.S. word, pronounced keednaping. But last week le crime américain was on every Parisian tongue. Little Eric Peugeot, an heir to one of France's greatest industrial (autos, appliances, heavy machinery) fortunes, was stolen in broad daylight and held for $100,000 ransom...
...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...