Word: arcs
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After he sold his controlling interest in the Chicago White Sox in 1961, Bill Veeck never stopped itching to "get involved again with people." In his best-selling 1962 autobiography Veeck-As in Wreck, he vowed: "Look for me under the arc lights, boys, I'll be back." Now, thumping the promotional drums as loudly as ever, the old Barnum of baseball has returned-but not to baseball. He is the new president and part owner of East Boston's Suffolk Downs race track...
PARIS, June 26--Every Thursday morning at 10:15, a small procession sets out from the American Embassy in Paris and proceeds in black Plymouth Furies to the Hotel Majestic, about two blocks from the Arc de, Triomphe. This is how each session of the Paris Peace Talks begins...
...hardly seemed possible, but Charles de Gaulle was gone. At one moment he had been there, seemingly as durable as the Arc de Triomphe, the most commanding figure ruling any nation, large or small, on the face of the earth. Now, abruptly, he was a retired country gentleman, a recluse in the tiny village of Colombey-les-Deux-Eglises sorting his memoirs, to be glimpsed only through a furtive telephoto lens and, most astonishing, to be heard not at all. Within twelve hours after his resignation in the wake of a referendum vote against his policies, workmen had moved...
...frequent irritation. It was impossible to discuss French politics for more than a few minutes without reducing the issue to De Gaulle personally. Even the countless jokes about him had grown somewhat tiresome because they always involved the same cast: De Gaulle with God, Jesus Christ, Joan of Arc or Napoleon. An industry grew up making De Gaulle souvenirs, from adulatory De Gaulle effigies and mildly satirical De Gaulle party masks to obscene artifacts. The monarch was not amused: there were hundreds of prosecutions for offenses against the President's dignity during De Gaulle's eleven years in office compared...
...days of the Fourth Republic, Pompidou took a six-month leave of absence from his job to serve as his official chef de cabinet. On inauguration day, De Gaulle ceremoniously offered a seat in the presidential limousine to Pompidou, and the two rode side by side away from the Arc de Triomphe, leaving ex-President René Coty to walk...