Word: rues
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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PICTORIAL GUIDE TO THE AAAAAAAALS OF NORTH AMERICA by Leonard Lee Rue ///. 299 pages. Crowe...
Predictably, all Gaul is divided on what tack to take with tourists. Small boutiques and big department stores such as Paris' Au Printemps are saying "no sale" to those who want on-the-spot discounts. On the other hand, Liz on the Rue de Rivoli, which counts on Americans for 90% of its business, will go on as before-though the firm is now providing airport-bound customers with buses staffed by hostesses who help with the confusion at customs. And at Dior last week, Director Jean-Marc Depoix comfortingly reassured his jet-set clientele that Dior...
...make it more in tune with the war-wounded countryside. Both the Saigon government and U.S. officials have been concerned that the honky-tonk establishments (bearing such names as Eve, Blue Angel and the Bunny Club) are making tawdry neon jungles of such once elegant neighborhoods as the Rue Catinat of Graham Greene's The Quiet American. In March of 1966, General William Westmoreland, aware that the off-duty activities of U.S. troops were beginning to alienate sensitive Vietnamese, initiated Operation Moose (Move Out of Saigon Expeditiously), a realistic attempt to deal with the problem by reducing the American...
Detail for Detail. That hint of arrogance hurt Stokes. His campaign manager, Dr. Kenneth Clement, was to rue later: "A lot of people who did not like the idea of a Negro mayor were waiting for an excuse to vote against him." It was not merely an error but a near calamity. In the early opinion polls Stokes had led Taft by 30 points and more. Now he was running scared. He dropped his supercilious needling and swung into substantive issues. To answer his opponent's charge that he had been a poor legislator, Stokes produced a testimonial that...
...Parade" at L'Tnnovation, Brussels' second biggest department store, and more than $1,000,000 in American-made goods were on sale at its six-story downtown store and four outlying branches. Bruxellois by the thousands jammed the main store situated on Rue Neuve to examine and buy American household gadgets, costume jewelry, sporting goods and nearly every kind of apparel, including paper dresses. Few paid much attention to picketing by pro-Peking youths or to the anti-U.S. tracts they passed out. To make the occasion thoroughly American, L'Tnnovation officials had splashed red, white...