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Moved by the significance of the new program, and doubtless by the arrival of spring, French Finance Minister Valéry Giscard D'Estaing composed a poem to mark the occasion. Giscard, who once donned a V-necked sweater to give his own anti-inflation program a soft, living-room sell over French TV, outlined the battle against inflation in the form of the Ten Commandments...
...popular gateway through the Alpine rampart separating southern and northern Europe. Up its tortuous trails from the Rhone valley climbed tumultuous hordes of Gauls and Germans to sweep down on Italy. And this way, says legend, came Carthaginian Hannibal and his elephants. Climbing the other way, from the beautiful Val d'Aosta, came Caesar's Roman legions intent on conquering tripartite Gaul and planting the legionary eagles on the banks of the Rhine. Nineteen hundred years later, after crushing the Austrians at Marengo, Napoleon and his grenadiers retraced Caesar's path...
...elegant and impeccably dressed as if he were managing Tiffany's. All this seems to help: he has built Maremont's sales from $30 million in 1959 to $122 million last year. Last week he capped a five-year diversification program by buying the Cal-Val Research & Development Corp., a California producer of giant shock absorbers and bomb-rack parts for the Air Force...
...Val Lewthwaite (4), after a close 17-15 victory in the first game, had barreled over Yale's Jim Brow in the second, 15-10. Unfortunately Brow was unable to accept the prospect of losing to a Harvardman and proceeded to demolish his Crimson opponent...
...excellent small and efficient computers. Today Machines Bull is slipping toward bankruptcy-but pride has not been lost. Last week the French government blocked an offer by General Electric to buy up 20% of Machines Bull stock for a reported $40 million. Saving the company, said Finance Minister Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, would require "a purely French solution...