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...pair lost in the first race to future-finalists P.M. Haining and N.J. Strange of the Auriol Kensington Rowing Club and Leander Club. Haining and Strange were defeated in the final by James Cracknell and Matthew Pinsent of the Leander Club. Cracknell and Pinsent both earned gold medals in the Sydney Olympics and are currently first in World Cup standings...
DIED. JACQUELINE AURIOL, 82, French aviator who was the second woman to break the sound barrier, in 1953; in Paris. The daughter-in-law of French President Vincent Auriol, Jacqueline traded parties at the palace for stunt-flying lessons in 1946. Two years after her face was crushed while she was a passenger in a 1949 plane crash, she volunteered to fly the Vampire jet fighter and set a world speed record for female aviators...
...going to seek "a cure rather than a . . . palliative" for Europe's troubles was the best news since the Allies landed in Normandy. It mattered little that le plan Marshall was vague. "Today there is something new in the lives of Frenchmen," breathed President of the Republic Vincent Auriol...
Europe of the Past. They were telling retorts, and they persuaded some important Frenchmen. Elder Statesman Vincent Auriol, 81, whom De Gaulle recently had flown to Paris in his presidential Caravelle for medical treatment after a fall, turned on his benefactor to endorse Mitterrand. Jean Monnet, architect of the Common Market, backed Mitterrand as well, because he found De Gaulle's idea of Europe the "Europe of centuries past, a rebirth of the nationalist spirit that has brought tragedy to France and Europe." Even De Gaulle's first-ballot, right-wing opponent, Lawyer Tixier-Vignancour, joined the other...
...right I couldn't miss," said durable Aviatrix Jacqueline Cochran, 57, looking at her Lockheed TF-104G Super Starfighter the way some women look at a gift-wrapped assortment of Cochran cosmetics. To take the women's 100-kilometer closed-course record away from her archrival, Jacqueline Auriol of France, the American Jackie whipped the knife-winged jet through its paces at 1,203.94 m.p.h., erasing Auriol's 1962 record of 1,149.65 m.p.h. And last month Jackie cracked her own mark in the 15-25-kilometer straightaway dash, boosting the Starfighter to 1,273.10 m.p.h., which...