Word: tricolor
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...French navy band thumped out ruffles and flourishes, the Foreign Legion detachment snapped to the garde-à-vous, and a thin line of civilians and dignitaries cheered and waved the Tricolor. But then things came apart. The crowds that lined Avenue 13 on De Gaulle's motorcade route were screaming for freedom, carrying banners demanding "Independence totale," "Vive la liberte," and in English, "French, go home." When the motorcade had passed, the demonstrators started throwing rocks at the legionnaires, rioted for four hours before they got tired and went home. Next day the riots erupted anew, bringing hundreds...
Next day, to celebrate the fall of the Bastille in 1789, the tricolor blossomed over Paris, and French emissaries around the world celebrated with champagne receptions. To the French Ambassador's garden party in Peking came Red Chinese Foreign Minister Chen Yi. Peking had already accused the Russians of collusion with Washington for a settlement in Europe that would free U.S. troops now based on the Continent to fight in Asia. For the French, Chen Yi had a toast of his own. Said he: "I am deeply convinced that so long as all the peace-loving countries and peoples...
What was he there for? To strike an other nonaggression pact with Russia like the one he signed in the wintry days of 1944? To conclude scientific agreements that would mount the French tricolor atop Soviet rockets and send them orbiting around the moon? Or was he there to speed the summer breakup of Europe's generation-old cold...
When the French Tricolor fluttered down a decade ago, the literacy rate in Viet Nam was about one third (down from when the French arrived 90 years before). Now, both despite and because of the war, two-thirds of the South Vietnamese can read and write. A major reason is that the U.S. Government's AID has flooded the schools with 7,000,000 textbooks in its most successful Vietnamese assistance program. It plans to distribute another 7,000,000 next year...
...week, all the klaxons of hell seemed concentrated at Clermont-Ferrand in the Auvergne Mountains of France. Electric starters whined. Engines coughed, belched smoke, bellowed and shrieked defiance at the wind. Yelling officials rushed wildly about, collaring reluctant mechanics and dragging them to the safety of the pits. The Tricolor flag fell. Gears crashed, tires squealed, and to a roar from 50,000 spectators, 17 Formula 1 racing cars hurtled off the starting grid for lap 1 of the French Grand Prix-oldest auto race in the world...