Word: auriolism
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France's President Vincent Auriol entered the picture when the presidential train stalled on a hill during a tour of the war-damaged section of eastern France. While waiting for a second engine to come to the rescue, an onlooker took the opportunity to introduce a tiny citizen to his admiring President...
...Manhattan, the 1952 Harmon International Aviation Awards were announced. Aviatrix: Jacqueline Auriol, daughter-in-law of the President of France, for setting the women's speed record-509 m.p.h.-in a jet fighter. Aviator: Pan American World Airways Captain Charles F. Blair Jr., the first man to fly a single-engine fighter plane nonstop across the North Pole. Aeronaut: Lieut. Carl J. Seiberlich, U.S.N., for developing new techniques in the use of low-flying airships...
...life as a blind, wasted consumptive, but he devised a system of reading and writing that opened the world of letters to millions of sightless people. Last week, marking the 100th anniversary year of his death, the blind were not alone in paying him tribute. With President Auriol leading the way, all of France was singing his praises...
Play together they did. In their first appearance at Paris' international Festival of the Arts, they offered modern French (Roussel, Honegger) and American (Barber, Piston) music, and left the audience (including President Auriol) shouting itself hoarse. In courtly appreciation, the orchestra and Conductor Munch broke a long-standing symphonic rule and played an encore. Two nights later came the success of Monteux, Stravinsky and The Rite of Spring...
...Tunis, whom Tunisians regard as their ruler, he found the 70-year-old Bey flanked by nationalist cabinet men. Finally, his patience worn thin, De Hautecloque ordered the Bey to throw the cabinet out. When the Bey appealed over the Resident's head to France's President Auriol, De Hautecloque took action for himself: off to exile went Prime Minister Chenik...