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Mornings, they might take off an hour and find a quiet beach, but they are back in the thick of it before the cathedrals close and bistros beckon them on to a glass of Campari, retsina, or vin ordinaire. At some point, of course, they find time to troop into the local American Express, where on a good day, a persevering type can manage to meet a friend, down a Coke, pick up his mail and a girl as well...
...Foul!" There were instant shouts of "foul!" Safety engineers complained that the demonstration was longer on publicity value than on detached scientific measurements. Renault President Vin cent Grob called the experiment "biased, proving only that if a big, heavy object can be directed to hit a small object, the small object can be hurt." U.S. compact-car makers, who have long resented being lumped with foreign-made economy cars in statistical surveys, discreetly pointed out that the only U.S.-made compacts involved in the Connecticut tests (two Falcons and a Rambler) had emerged in comparatively good condition-but naturally, these...
...French abstain when they can from their ill-tasting tap water in favor of vin ordinaire, and abhor the ice water that Americans call for. Such Gallic hydrophobia does not apply, however, to bottled mineral water. In the course of a year, the French drink 1.2 billion bottles drawn from 3,000 springs, or 25 bottles for every man, woman and child. By far France's biggest producer of mineral water is Source Perrier, a $79 million firm that has grown so prosperous from its natural springs that it now owns seven mineral water companies, a soft drink company...
Gaulle was dramatically evident at some of the agricultural centers on his tour. At Orange, the crowd in the Place Georges Clemenceau was as thin and spiritless as the local vin ordinaire. At Les Beaumettes, another scheduled stopover, the general was greeted by empty streets and shuttered windows, and sternly decided to drive...
Poets Y. Philosophers. Colonel Eyre quickly became a symbol of tyranny to the radicals, of empire to the imperialists. A Jamaica Committee was formed to bring Eyre to justice, and an Eyre Defense Committee was formed to vin dicate him. In general, the working classes identified the Jamaicans' cause with their own. The upper classes were determined to keep.the working men, as well as the Jamaicans, in their place...