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...Tu & Toi. Lamour had fallen in love with the Midi, but he recognized his love's faults. The sun shines brightly year-round in the Midi, but the 30 inches of rain that the area gets in an average year is concentrated in about 80 days. The obvious solution: irrigation. Visiting the U.S., Lamour studied TVA dams and California's irrigated valleys, then returned to the Midi to duplicate what he had seen...
...partly private, partly government development corporation and sent its agents into Midi homes to argue for an irrigation system that would wipe out the area's dependence on grapes alone. Lamour's advice to his agents: "Never refuse a glass of wine. Try to get on 'tu' and 'toi' terms with everyone...
Since 1957, Lamour's tu-and-toi technique has produced impressive results. A dam on the Orb River is complete, another is under way on a tributary of the Herault River, and 42 miles of canal are finished. Ultimately, at a cost of $300 million, the Midi will be irrigated. Last year 40,000 tons of Midi apples and peaches reached Paris, and by 1965, annual shipments are expected to top 100,000 tons. Another dividend of Lamour's investment: the U.S.'s Libby, McNeill & Libby is surveying sites for a food processing plant in the south...
...ministerial appointment because she disapproved of the sexual laxity of the man's wife. Her effect on De Gaulle is to tug him toward conformity, tone down his barracks vocabulary, soothe his rages. The De Gaulles use the vous form to each other, rather than the more intimate tu. Though this indicates a certain old-fashioned formality in their relations, it does not suggest any lack of affection...
...once Richard's final scene, in which he disarms and slays two attackers before being felled by Exton. As he falls, Basehart manages to wrench the heart when he painfully recognizes his murderer and pronounces his name in surprised disbelief--a moment as touching as Caesar's "Et tu, Brute...