Word: rouen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...second automobile. The first organized race was exactly 71 years ago, in 1894, and it was won by a bowler-hatted French nobleman named Count de Dion (later to be immortalized by having a racing rear axle named after him), who drove his steamer from Paris to Rouen, a distance of 79 miles, at an average speed of 12.6 m.p.h. Daredevil De Dion could not possibly have guessed the contagion he was spreading. Other races followed quickly-to Bordeaux, Marseille, Dieppe, Nice, Trouville, all the way across the Continent to Vienna. The British were a little late joining...
...Reims for a business appointment, back to England for a day of test driving at Silverstone, and back to Reims again-this time to practice for a July 4 Formula II race. Ahead on the schedule: a Ford junket to Switzerland, a race in Britain, a trip to Rouen, a movie filming in Scotland, and the Dutch Grand Prix. This frantic life has its little compensations. Fortune, for one: his income from racing this year will top $230,000, and Edington Mains is busily in the black too, producing barley for Scotch-whisky distillers, sheep for wool, and cattle...
...think I am not being pessimistic in saying that a schism is to be feared by the end of the year," said Rouen's coadjutor, Archbishop Andre Pailler, last month; he foresaw that some French conservatives would leave the church rather than accept the liberal definitions of religious liberty and the church in the modern world that the Vatican Council will probably approve this fall...
...vetoed British membership in the Common Market two years ago, the master of the Elysée Palace and the occupant of No. 10 Downing Street sat down last weekend in Paris for two days of official talks. Things went surprisingly well, though a mismatch of menus laid canard Rouen on Guest Harold Wilson's plate for both lunch and dinner one day, first at the Elysée and then at the Quai d'Orsay. Unruffled, Wilson declared the conversations "outspoken, robust and constructive," and a smiling De Gaulle let it be known on his part that...
...much do you feel your'liberty is worth?" asked the Rouen judge. "Twenty million francs!" shouted Rhadames Trujillo, 22, son of the slain Dominican dictator, who was thrown in the hoosegow on charges brought by relatives trying to sink their teeth into the family fortune of $100 million or so. "Excuse my client," pleaded his lawyer. "He is blinded by the thought of the freedom he wants so desperately." So the court blinked at Rhadames' clinker, set bail at only 10 million francs ($2,000,000), which his mother, sister and brother put up in a wink...