Word: vals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rolled through Brussels a faculty member barraged the students with questions. "Who recently introduced the lower bank rate in France?" A student's correct answer: "Valéry Giscard d'Estaing." "Why?" "To spur investment." At the International School of Brussels, U.S. executives of Ford, I.T.T., Monsanto and Upjohn got a grilling from the students: "Why are Germany's gold reserves going down when its economy is booming?" "What marketing research have you done in Europe on oral contraceptives?" In Paris, the Americans met Gaullist students to discuss the mysteries of the world's teen-agers...
French Finance Minister Valéry Giscard d'Estaing has also called for the Group of Ten to create its own money, but he wants to use it only as a minor supplement to gold. France's main aim is to upgrade the importance of gold, of which it has plenty, and downgrade the dollar and the pound. The Common Market is talking about printing a six-nation money, and its economic chief, Robert Marjolin, figures that such a move could later open the way for a Group of Ten money. The U.S. opposes the idea...
...French Cabinet is debating whether it should impose firmer controls on the French economy. Influential former Premier Michel Debré is pressing for more controls; Pompidou and Finance Minister Valéry Giscard d'Estaing argue for more free enterprise. Though the Gaullists see no compelling political reasons at the moment for relaxing the present unpopular controls, most Frenchmen are confident that relief will come later this year. Reason: the next French presidential election must be held by December, and De Gaulle will want his voters to be contented and prospering...
...Contentieux. That was an over statement, but no one could deny that the Congo's shrewd, hard-bargaining Premier had won a major victory. During less than ten days of negotiations-first with businessmen at Brussels' Cháteau de Val-Duchesse, later with Foreign Minister Paul-Henri Spaak-Tshombe had resolved a 41-year-old wrangle between Belgium and its former colony, which had come to be known as "le contentieux...
Breaking Bones. The girls have been skiing since 1949, when their parents left the French Riviera to open a small pension in the Alpine village of Val-d'Isère. By the time Marielle...