Word: troisi
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...would be demonstrations by embittered leftist workers. But apart from a brief, lively election-night march by a few dozen center-right celebrators, observers on the Champs-Elysées noted only the formation of a patient queue, intent upon nothing more momentous than buying tickets to Rencontres du Troisième Type (Close Encounters of the Third Kind) at a movie house. The morning after the elections, when, according to some dark prophecies, plans for crippling mass strikes would be hatched, the French quietly went back to work. Indeed, leaders of France's major trade unions, including...