Word: rying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ry Giscard d'Estaing, 43, Finance Minister, was Pompidou's second choice for the job, after Antoine Pinay, France's personification of financial stability, turned the post down. Giscard was an obvious alternative, if a controversial one to loyal Gaullists, who dubbed him "Giscariot" after he opposed De Gaulle in the April referendum. Brilliant, rich and openly ambitious, Giscard affects an image à la Kennedy, has had himself photographed skiing France's Grande-Motte glacier and hunting wild boar in the Soviet Union. During his four years as De Gaulle's Finance Minister, he imposed...
Hubert Beuve-Méry, Le Monde's erudite editor, notes that, "It is events such as the accouchement of Brigitte Bardot that send our competitors' sales soaring. For us, it is a political crisis." From this viewpoint, the first appearance of the English-language weekly edition could hardly have been more auspicious: it came out the Wednesday before the referendum that brought down Charles de Gaulle. Le Monde cast a cool eye at De Gaulle's threatened resignation, denounced it as "a kind of blackmail," and wondered whether Frenchmen should "grant General de Gaulle...
Unable to Cope. Beuve-Méry has put Lois Grjebine, 38, a Smith College graduate and former Réalités editor, in charge of the English edition. She commands a squad of three assistant editors and 30 part-time translators, most of whom are professionals employed by Paris-based international organizations. Selling for 50? in the U.S. and two shillings in Britain, the paper has a current circulation of 25,000. Who reads it? Gervase Markham, a Le Monde director, says: "University professors, students, Francophiles, diplomats, government officials, businessmen, journalists, people in the art world. Anyone...
...strip away the Senate's powers and shift the line of presidential succession from the President of the Senate to the Premier-a De Gaulle appointee. Thus put, the packaging has roused the nons to fierce opposition and drawn to their side ex-Minister of Finance Valéry Giscard d'Estaing and Senate President Alain Poher, who last week was stumping the countryside in defense of "the separation of powers...
...admired and cherished for the things he can do, has made a fool of himself this time. He is very, very wrong," says Dr. Matthew Bruccoli, head of the English Department at Ohio State University, which is producing the M.L.A.'s Hawthorne edition. Twain Scholar Hen ry Nash Smith of the University of California at Berkeley complains that "Wilson paws and snorts like a bull moose. He seems to be saying that we should correct serious distortions, but doesn't realize that you can't tell if it's distorted unless you do the research...