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...loathes and suppresses his Christian name, Rudolph, which makes it all the more astonishing to discover-eleven books later-that he has called his own son Rupert. Gradually, too, as the series progresses, a caste of semiregulars assembles: the policemen Gates and Luke, the trouble-prone Faraday clan, Sister Val. Perhaps the apogee of Campion's career occurred early in World War II in one of the best episodes, Traitor's Purse. He is called upon to save his embattled country from a massive, ruinous counterfeiting scheme, and he does-despite the fact that throughout the book...
...months ago, France was beset by inflation; it arose from the student-worker riots of 1968, after which a 15% wage increase was necessary to restore tranquillity. The danger of a runaway price-wage spiral and loss of confidence in the economy seemed so acute that Finance Minister Valéry Giscard d'Estaing brought out every modern anti-inflationary weapon: a devaluation of the franc, tight credit controls, the highest interest rates in Europe, a temporary price freeze and a strict limit on wage increases...
...dollar supremacy may well be coming to an end. Behind closed doors, financiers are trying to figure out ways to reduce the power of the dollar. At last month's International Monetary Fund meeting, French Finance Minister Valéry Giscard d'Estaing caustically compared the world's reliance on the inflation-eroded dollar to the act of setting a watch "by a clock that is out of order." Last week a committee headed by Luxembourg's Prime Minister, Pierre Werner, handed in a report suggesting how the Common Market countries can create a new "Eurocurrency...
...Arcs is a tiny jewel for the passionate skier. Situated near Val d'Isère (Killy's home and the site of last winter's disastrous avalanche), it offers 37 miles of breathtaking and challenging slopes. The atmosphere is, to say the least, clubby. Anyone buying into Les Arcs must be approved by a seven-man board of investors. The result is a homogeneous clientele roughly between the ages of 30 and 45, drawn mostly from publishing and the arts. Although it is primarily designed for serious skiers, it also offers a discothèque with...
Though the world Alpine ski championship is nominally an amateur affair, the spectacle staged in Val Gardena, Italy, last month looked more like the world ski-trade fair. With their equipment splashily plastered with brand names, contestants paraded before the TV cameras like walking commercials. For a $400-a-month payoff, one entrant sported the badge of a resort he has never even seen. After winning the special slalom, France's Jean-Noel Augert shouted "Vive Le Courbier!"-a hard-sell pitch for a ski resort in which, as he put it, "I am investing all my savings...