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...world currency markets. The agreement had been under negotiation between the two countries for two months; it was wrapped up by U.S. Secretary of the Treasury William Simon and French Finance Minister Jean-Pierre Fourcade at a lunch in Paris in time to be approved by Presidents Ford and Valéry Giscard d'Estaing at the summit...
...site of the world's first postwar summit meeting devoted exclusively to economics. The three-day gathering will bring together government chiefs of six nations that account for roughly 70% of the non-Communist world's production and trade: U.S. President Gerald Ford, French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, Japanese Premier Takeo Miki, West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, British Prime Minister Harold Wilson and Italian Premier Aldo Moro. Their purpose: to discuss ways in which their countries can cooperate to lift the industrial world out of its worst business slump since the 1930s...
Others danced to the music of Joey Val's five-man band, watched "Happy Days" and "Space: 1999" between spans of election coverage, or joined in "We Want Joe" cheers led by a small group of Charlestown women wearing styrofoam Timilty hats and Timilty banners across their chests...
...time, she for the first; in Moscow. When Spassky first announced his intention to marry the pretty French-born daughter of Russian emigres, Soviet bureaucracy said she would have to leave the Soviet Union by Sept. 30. Anxious to avoid an international scandal on the eve of French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing's October visit to the U.S.S.R., Russian authorities relented. Said Spassky: "Now I have an extra queen in my competitions...
Gallic Subtlety. Although President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing virtually abolished censorship six months ago, Secretary of State for Culture Michel Guy still has authority to ban anything on stage or screen that goes too far. Guy, however, is more concerned about violence and drugs than explicit sex. If he had been in office at the time, Guy says he might well have banned Stanley Kubrick's chilling A Clockwork Orange, which anyone over 18 could see, while letting Last Tango in Paris sail through. Another branch of government, however, may give the porn purveyors some anxiety...