Word: 24th
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bourgeois poet with the instincts of a grand seigneur" as Besterman puts it, Voltaire set out none too scrupulously to guarantee himself financial security. Before his 24th birthday, he had become an instant success with his first and most famous play, Oedipe, in which he used Greek tragedy to give vent to his lifelong hatred of absolute monarchy. A special lottery, which he manipulated to his advantage, was his first financial killing...
Papagianis responded to Asehaffenburg's heroics with his third goal minutes later on an assist from center half Emmanuel Ekama. Midway through the final period. Papagianis banged home his 24th goal of the year after a through pass from Mossavar-Rahmani...
Mean while. Koerner, Pottetti, and Heyburn were running together about 30 places behind. "I' just never had anything," said Pottetti, who was seventh last year and was expected to finish near the top today, Koerner was 24th, and Heyburn was 26th, right in front of Penn's Julio Piazza, who has beaten all three at some point this fall...
...Paris theater currently has two-and only two-real hits. One of them, Hair, is in its 24th week. The other, which just opened, is Jean Anouilh's Cher Antoine. Any play by France's most widely performed modern playwright is bound to be bitingly witty and polished to a high gloss; this one, Anouilh's 28th, is even more so, and the critics were unreservedly delighted...
...24th President of the U.N. General Assembly, Liberia's ebullient Angie Brooks, is no stranger to the job of keeping order among large and contentious clans. Though long divorced, she still supports 19 adopted children in Liberia. Over the years, besides raising her own two sons, who are now grown and working in her country, she has been foster mother to 47 youngsters. The maternal image is enhanced by her ample figure and by the matching lappa (skirts) and turbans that she prefers to the businesslike suits worn by most other women delegates...