Word: strasbourg
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Banana Breakfast. A straight-A student, DeBakey raced through Tulane for both his B.S. and M.D. degrees, stayed to get an M.S. for research on peptic ulcer. He got appointments to the universities of Strasbourg and Heidelberg, where he also continued courting Diana Cooper, a pretty nurse whom he had met in New Orleans before she went to the American Hospital in Paris. After Europe and marriage, it was back to Tulane to the department of surgery under Dr. Alton Ochsner.* During the '30s, young Dr. DeBakey became an expert in blood transfusions and invented a roller pump...
...more than 1,000 disputes involving the affairs of the Common Market, the European Coal and Steel Community and Euratom. Today, individuals from 15 European countries can in some cases appeal beyond their own countries' highest courts to the European Human Rights Court. Set up in 1958 in Strasbourg, France, a commission of the Court has reviewed up to 2,000 complaints and passed on to the Court only two (it found for Ireland in one, against Belgium in the other...
...moved, the court gave the defendants suspended eight-day sentences and $200 fines. Not satisfied, France's top law journals tore the decision apart. Calling the law "most imprecise," Strasbourg University Law Professor Alfred Rieg said that it fails to require crucial proof that "an act has been capable of causing a scandal." At this stage of changing mores, he added, "one cannot seriously claim that the nudity of a feminine bosom on a beach is of a nature to offend the decency of those...
...grocery order to sky-high figures. Christmas accounts for 25% of Fortnum's business; last week 700 employees hustled to fill orders from eminent customers for such items as Beluga caviar ($44 a lb.), Stilton cheese, smoked Scotch salmon and pate de foie gras en croute, flown from Strasbourg. Almost every order includes that centerpiece of British Christmas, Fortnum's plum pudding, 70,000 of which will be sold in London or mailed around the world this year...
Even among nations that use the same weights and linear measures, agreements on standardization are still difficult. Perhaps the most bizarre search for a common standard was started in Strasbourg, France, by a panel of Common Market experts who are facing a sweet problem: how much chocolate should go into a common chocolate...