Word: 200th
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bored by him," Victor Hugo once remarked of Napoleon. But the French certainly do not share that feeling. Despite devaluation of the franc, France this week celebrates the 200th anniversary of Bonaparte's birth, gripped by an unprecedented outbreak of Napoleonomania. Traveling by ship and plane to Napoleon's Corsican hometown of Ajaccio (pop. 50,000), more than 200,000 tourists will enjoy fireworks and street dancing, hear President Georges Pompidou deliver the bicentennial address and watch 3,500 French légionnaires, dressed as the Emperor's grognards (grumpy veterans), parade through the spruced-up city...
...author pick his characters out of phone books, turn plot construction over to his subconscious, then write an entire novel in eight days and hope to attain a respected literary reputation? (See THE WORLD, "A Happy 200th to Simenon...
...hell and heaven at the same time. The world's richest, strongest nation has never deserved its superlatives more. Yet rarely has it felt so wracked and confused, so unable to yoke its power to its problems. For the President who may well preside over America on its 200th birthday in 1976, the challenge is to revive its morale and purpose...
...might have to concede, openly and candidly, that The Great Experiment in self-government died, the victim of violence, before its 200th birthday...
...Robert W. Haack, who this fall succeeds Keith Funston as president, is whether floor trading can be handled more efficiently by machine than by men; the exchange is considering moving to nearby New Jersey with automated equipment to escape New York City's stock-transfer tax. By its 200th birthday celebration, the speeches may well be made by computers...