Word: rues
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Funny Girl. If New York were Paris, Broadway could temporarily consider renaming itself the Rue Streisand. Some stars merely brighten up a marquee; Barbra Streisand sets an entire theater ablaze. Funny Girl-the saga of famed Comedienne Fanny Brice which opened last week in Manhattan-has fireworks. Streisand has firepower...
Caloric Cuisine. Kir has enthusiastically "twinned" Dijon in friendship with 18 foreign cities, from Stalingrad to Kankan in Guinea to Dallas. And Kir sticks by his friends; he stoutly resisted a proposal, after the Kennedy assassination, to change the name of Dijon's Rue Dallas...
...Rothschilds have holdings in more than 100 blue chips, including Royal Dutch/Shell, De Beers, Michelin, Rio Tinto, IBM. The French branch's string-tied bundles of stock fill an ancient five-story bank vault whose keyholes are hidden behind brass lionheads. In the buff sandstone building at 21 Rue Laffitte that has been home to de Rothschild Freres since 1817, muttonchop-whiskered family ancients line the walls in oil and marble, and ushers wearing black swallow-tailed coats attend the customers, while 300 employees quietly work. Guy de Rothschild occupies a small, white-painted office, which has on display...
...Lincoln Tunnel. But in the rush to memorialize Ken nedy, many worthy governments and citizens' groups seemed eager to wipe out one historical name with another. In Beirut, Lebanon, Georges Clemenceau Street became John F. Kennedy Street; in Montigny-les-Metz, 175 miles east of Paris, the Rue Jeanne d'Arc was rechristened Rue J. F. Kennedy. A New Hampshire state legislator proposed changing the name of 5,535-ft. Mount Clay (after Henry) to Mount Kennedy...
Virtual Monopoly. The French giant began life in 1826 as a bookstore opened by one Louis Hachette at No. 12 Rue Pierre-Sarrazin in Paris' Latin Quarter. Louis Hachette died in 1864, a substantial success. The site of his bookstore is now surrounded by eight buildings erected by his descendants...