Word: complexe
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...sensible shoes to teach the English way to King Hussein, ex-King Farouk, Prince Rainier, and the daughters of the King of Denmark. So ubiquitous was her kind, in fact, that former French Premier Georges Bidault once bitterly complained: "Too many important Frenchmen have been given an inferiority complex for life by being brought up by English nannies...
...high platform: "We are Aristotelian in the true sense; we entertain while we instruct. We slip the message in between the laughs. Our target is pomposity." Chicagoans like both the laughs and the message; the group's sharp entertainment goes far toward relieving Chicago's country-cousin complex as the U.S.'s second city. Even the Tribune praised the show for its "sparkle and sauciness, speed and irreverence." Oedipus Revisited. If the Second City comedians have a trademark, it is "The Living Newspaper," a flexible skit touched off by items in the press. When discoveries of police...
Vitamin B Complex...
Pechiney moved in among the cows and centuries-old stone farmhouses of Lacq to take advantage of a huge natural-gas deposit which has attracted a whole complex of industry since it was discovered eight years ago. The company has grown so fast since the war that the amount of hydroelectric power available in Metropolitan France, of which it uses 6%, is no longer enough. Its search for additional sources of cheap power (and cheap raw materials) has also led it to Africa, where it joined an international consortium, including Olin-Mathieson, to build an aluminum plant in Cameroon, helped...
...manufacturers of aluminum, rapidly expanded. It was hard hit during World War II; its technology fell behind U.S. companies, and retreating German soldiers sabotaged its factories. But Pechiney poured all its money and effort into rebuilding, expansion, modernization, last year did $300 million worth of business through its French complex and 50 affiliates and subsidiaries around the world...