Word: rues
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Serene Salaud. On De Gaulle's arrival in Algeria, rioters surged through Algiers and Oran, but were easily contained by helmeted police using tear-gas bombs and "defensive" grenades, which explode with a loud noise but do little damage. Some diehards built a barricade in Algiers' Rue Michelet. This time the army did not stand idly by-two tanks clanked forward and shattered the feeble rampart of bed springs, paving stones and garbage cans...
...Actually those of Thomas de la Rue & Co. Ltd. of London, which last year stopped printing 1 and 2 cruzeiro notes when someone discovered that they cost Brazil 1.2 cruzeiros apiece...
...first prize in a contest sponsored by the Renault company. Raymond Duncan, the monkish brother of the late dancer Isadora, gave him a one-man show at his Rue de Seine gallery. He was the subject of a TV film, and articles about him began cropping up in Belgium, West Germany, Denmark, Norway and Italy...
Where & What to Buy. One of the finest shopping streets in Europe is Paris' Rue Faubourg St. Honoré, home of such couturiers as Lanvin and Cardin as well as Hermès-a combination of Mark Cross and Abercrombie & Fitch-where expensive leather goods are made on the premises (e.g., an $80 copy of a handbag for Princess Grace of Monaco...
...chief since the end of World War II and the antithesis of the tradition-bound European businessman. De Vitry (he does not use his title) began at the bottom at Pechiney, was decorated for fighting in the Resistance during the war, has made Pechiney's headquarters at 23 Rue Balzac in Paris as modern as his views about industry. "My motto," he says, "consists of two words: audacity and measure...