Word: tricolor
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Whether the applicant is a Frenchman eager to marry before departing for Africa the next day, or a man and woman anxious to legitimize their newborn child, Bouvet obliges by donning his tricolor sash and officiating at a town-hall ceremony. "Mind you, I don't marry just anyone," says Bouvet. "First, I have a chat with the couple. If I feel something's wrong, then I refuse to marry them. But red tape shouldn't be allowed to thwart love and marriage...
There was thunderous applause, and the I.R.A. "provisionals" lifted their Old Bushmills whisky to the tricolor flag of Ireland and the pictures of dead heroes on the wall...
...contrasted with the brilliant red trimmings on the uniforms of the Garde Républicaine. A soft light from the huge circles of the rose windows was obscured by scores of arc lights for color-TV coverage. In the apse behind the choir hung an enormous ceiling-to-floor tricolor. When Pompidou and his wife entered, the white-robed cathedral choir began a chorale from Bach's St. Matthew Passion. Within an hour, the service ended with a Magnificat. The same anthem had closed the Notre Dame service in which De Gaulle offered a prayer of thanksgiving after...
Luxurious Playground. The Casino's heritage is as glorious as the tricolor itself. It was originally founded on the estate of the Due de Richelieu (grand nephew of the cardinal) two centuries ago. For the libertine duke's pleasure, the loveliest courtesans of France performed voluptuous charades. Between the Franco-Prussian War and World War I, France's Belle Epoque, the Casino was the luxurious playground of continental nobility. Between the world wars, it went into decline under Director Henri Varna. "Give the public nudes, feathers and spangles. That's all they want," he once said...
...rally at Glassboro State College, then committed suicide together. Across the Hudson, New York's city hall wore the black and purple bunting of mourning. Mayor Herman Zogelmann of Wellington, Kans. (pop. 8,391) cooperated with the American Legion post to drape the town in patriotic tricolor. Across the country-in drenching San Francisco rain, in ankle-deep Denver snow, in crisp New York fall sunshine-Americans took part in a unique national Happening...