Word: arced
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Raymond Guest, U.S. Ambassador to Ireland, the three-year-old colt, win ner of the Preakness Stakes, led most of the way to score his ninth victory in twelve starts this year. Tom Rolfe's next stop: France, and the $150,000-added Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe...
Unfortunately for mademoiselle, her monument will be nearly as gauche as most of the ditties about her. To be erected whenever Armentières can raise the $14,000 that it will cost, it depicts her as a sort of bedroom Joan of Arc surrounded by four admiring soldiers, who are holding her aloft on a serving tray...
...started on Cleopatra for $2,000,-000. Her basic mistake, the column went on, was giving "the remarkable opinion that the heroine of my novel was 'practically a prostitute.' Bear in mind that the part she was eager to play was Cleopatra, not Joan of Arc. Bear in mind, too, the fact that the then Mrs. Eddie Fisher had already been Mrs. Todd, Mrs. Hilton and Mrs. Wilding, though not yet 30 years old, and had long since changed her public image from that of the little girl who loved a horse in National Velvet." "Ingrid...
Died. James Finney Lincoln, 82, Cleveland industrialist, president (since 1928) and board chairman (since 1954) of Lincoln Electric Co. founded by his brother John in 1895, world's largest manufacturer of arc-welding equipment, who in 1934 instituted a program of employee bonus incentives on the premise that "selfishness is the motivating force of all human endeavor," which was so successful in boosting volume and cutting costs that he was able to sell his products for less than any competitor, while giving his employees almost double the money (an average $13,000 annually) paid elsewhere in the industry...
...Gaulle looked and sounded very much the compleat candidate. He was also in imperial form. At Provins, the mayor, who happens also to be De Gaulle's Information Minister Alain Peyrefitte, trumpeted: "Our town has received sovereigns: Philip Augustus, Charles VII in the company of Joan of Arc, Napoleon. But we have never received a President of the Republic. When this President is called General de Gaulle, our honor is redoubled by joy." Without a blink, De Gaulle replied: "Your reception, which moves me and makes me happy, is for me an element of determination in what follows"-meaning...