Word: soleils
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Some GRECE members also showed an unsettling predilection for neofascist ritual, beginning their closed meetings with the salute "Soleil, race!" (Sun, race!) and writing letters to one another in brown ink. In 1974 GRECE Member Yvan Blot, together with fellow students at the École Nationale d'Administration, formed the Club de l'Horloge (Clock Club), a lobby group that promotes many of the same issues...
...overbuilt beach front in the south of France, the Côte d'Azur. Local rail terminals are overflowing as additional sun worshipers pour into Saint-Tropez, Sainte-Maxime, Cannes, Nice and Menton. When they arrive, along with myriad motorists who are clogging France's autoroute du soleil, a rude shock is waiting: no accommodations are available. As many as 1,000 people a day are redirected by the local tourist office to the Maritime Alps, inland and anywhere from 50 to 100 miles...
...girls need big diamonds," says Supermodel Margaux Hemingway, who boasts of being 5-ft. 12-in. tall. Nevertheless, a 105.54-carat diamond rocked her. "It was so big, it looked fake," she says. The brobdingnagian bauble called the soleil d'or (golden sun), owned by a private American collector, was shown to Margaux during the taping of a French talk show. As a ring of security guards looked on nervously, Margaux tossed the stone up in the air and caught it in her well-photographed white teeth. "I'm good at peanuts too," she said modestly. Are diamonds...
...right in keeping with the current boom. England is experiencing such a resurgence of witchcraft and other occult dabbling that an ecumenical commission of Anglicans and Roman Catholics recently recommended that each diocese appoint an official exorcist to drive out demons. In France, a popular seer named Madame Soleil gives weekday advice on radio, and rumors say that Black Masses are being performed in Paris and Lyons...