Word: tricolor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rally at Glassboro State College, then committed suicide together. Across the Hudson, New York's city hall wore the black and purple bunting of mourning. Mayor Herman Zogelmann of Wellington, Kans. (pop. 8,391) cooperated with the American Legion post to drape the town in patriotic tricolor. Across the country-in drenching San Francisco rain, in ankle-deep Denver snow, in crisp New York fall sunshine-Americans took part in a unique national Happening...
WITHIN the Gobelin-hung halls of the Elysée Palace mingled the political and military leaders of France, their tricolor sashes and bemedaled uniforms testifying to their country's proud if sometimes painful past. Outside in the courtyard, drawn up on one side of a red carpet that stretched across the white gravel, stood a company of the Republican Guard, resplendent in their 19th century red-trimmed uniforms. Down the ribbon of carpet last week walked Georges Pompidou, the man to whom France has entrusted its destiny for the next seven years...
General Motors has brought out its hairy Z/28 Camaro, which is available with front and rear wind "spoilers" that jut from the car body and improve handling at speeds of 100 m.p.h. and up. American Motors executives announced production of 500 tricolor SC/ Ramblers -steamed-up versions of the family economy car-and then watched delightedly as a flood of orders obliged them to triple the total. Sales of Plymouth's 1969 Road Runner-available with the "beep, beep" horn of its cartoon namesake and a 425 h.p. "King Kong" engine-have so far totaled...
...Binh looks out on a small lake with its own island and six elegant white swans. Most of the petit bourgeois neighborhood took the Viet Cong's arrival in stride, but when the N.L.F. hung out its flag, a French patriot across the street indignantly hung one French tricolor from his roof and another from his front gate...
This is not a connoisseur's exhibit. It is a bit facile, picking out the best known artists, in their most recognizable attire. The hand of the French public relations man, embracing the creative world under the tricolor makes us wonder if he doesn't want us to like him a little better, or visit his country a little sooner. But bribe or no bribe, reunions are not known for soul-searing communications...