Word: alps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Still Fighting. One night a familiar scene flashed on television. At a Louis XV desk in the library of the Elysée Palace sat De Gaulle, erect as an Alp, puffed face serene, aging voice steady. His words were blunt: unless the French electorate not only votes yes in the referendum, but does so by a massive margin, "my task will be ended, immediately and irrevocably." De Gaulle concluded: "But if, as I hope, as I am sure, you answer me yes once more, then I shall be confirmed by all of you in the burden I bear...
...skier who catches Alitalia's 8 p.m. Flight 603 at Idlewild Airport on Friday is in Milan Saturday morning at 9:20, ready to jump into a rented Fiat for the drive to Cervinia. At noon, he is schussbooming down the flanks of a 6,500-ft. Alp...
...fabulist of magnolia and metropolis transplanted from New Orleans to New York and now nurturing his rarefied sensitivities "way high up on a splendid Alp in Switzerland," Truman (Breakfast at Tiffany's) Capote, 37, came down from the mountain with a personal Baedeker for a British newsman. "Venice," he began, "is like eating an entire box of chocolate liqueurs in one go. Too, too rich. London is delicious, soggy steak and kidney pie. If I stay here too long, I become physically ill." But even the merest aroma of Paris turned Capote's delicate tummy. "I hate...
...Alp, Alp. Gleason. of course, is primarily a TV clown in the U.S., and he is not well known to the French. Jackie professes to enjoy his place in the shade, and claims that "as soon as I get a day off, I'm going to a department store. I haven't dared go near one in years." But the anonymity is not likely to last. After a difficult day, Gleason issued from his penthouse at the George V looking, in spotless maroon jacket and pink shirt, like an Alp covered with wild flowers. He proceeded...