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...Germany to help guard factories and mines that Renard's extremists had threatened with sabotage. In many towns gendarmes escorted government-conscripted garbage men on their rounds; as they dumped the cans into trucks, village after village echoed to auto horns that beeped rhythmically "Eyskens au po-teau"-"Eyskens to the gallows." Here and there, there were scuffles with the police, smashed windows, streets seeded with tacks...
...wrote foreign-policy speeches for Dewey in 1948, was an early bird for Ike in 1951. After the 1952 campaign, he was rewarded with the ambassadorship to Paris. No post could have made Dillon happier. His family owned one of the finest vineyards in the Bordeaux region, Château Haut-Brion, and his cousin, a resident of France who served his adopted country with distinction during the Occupation, was possibly the only native of the U.S. ever elected mayor of a French village. Though Dillon spoke fluent French, he took an hour's instruction daily so that...
...Sanctuary. Last week, in his drive to realize his vision, De Gaulle stood alone, if not quite politically isolated, in Europe. Since last July he had been summoning the statesmen of the other Common Market nations to his forested sanctuary at the Château of Rambouillet to explain his proposals. From Italy's Amintore Fanfani to Luxembourg's Premier Pierre Werner, his distinguished visitors went away awed but uncowed, concerned and dismayed...
...Australian port," so labeled, may not be sold in Great Britain, nor may Spanish "champagne" be sold in Spain. We in America have eliminated all but a handful of these so-called generic names, and American vintners may no longer market, as in the bad old days, "Château d'Yquem" and "Château Margaux" from California...
...loan from Manhattan's Whitney Museum, 22 realistic paintings (among them: works by Edward Hopper, John Sloan, Maurice Sterne, Reginald Marsh Charles Sheeler) are on view in the ancient French Riviera château fortress of La Napoule. Sponsored by the La Napoul( Art Foundation-Henry Clews Memorial the show, titled "American Realism in the Twentieth Century," is aimed at bringing Europe "another page of American art history." Said one U.S. cultural attaché in France: "At last we have something to show Europeans besides abstract blotches and curlicues...