Word: auriolism
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...referendum day approached, the opposition hardened. Ex-President Vincent Auriol now openly accused De Gaulle of "usurpation" and of asking the nation to "legalize his coups d'etat." Economic Planner Etienne Hirsch blasted De Gaulle by asking if the man who wanted to be the "supreme guide" of France had "forgotten how this translates into Italian, Spanish or German"-il Duce, el Caudillo, der Fűhrer. Opposition posters quoted the words of the late Premier Georges Clemenceau: "The cemeteries are full of indispensable...
...Against her had been lodged only the minor civil charge of using a false identity card. Her husband remains in Cell 57 of Sante Prison, preparing to go on trial for his life next week. His request to subpoena President de Gaulle and ex-Presidents Rene Coty and Vincent Auriol among 39 defense witnesses has been refused. But he has been granted use of an electric razor to shave off the mustache he was wearing as a disguise when captured...
...Algerian question both menaces and ensures the stability of De Gaulle's regime. Such old pols as Antoine Pinay, Guy Mollet and ex-President Vincent Auriol are eager to take over control of the state-but not until the Algerian time bomb has either exploded under De Gaulle or been defused...
...Cochran, fiftyish, reclaimed the title of the world's fastest female. Piloting a T-38 twin-jet trainer at 842.6 m.p.h. over a speedway at California's Edwards Air Force Base, the high-level cosmetician (Jacqueline Cochran, Inc.) surpassed the 1955 record of France's Jacqueline Auriol by 127 m.p.h...
Equipped for the occasion with a Mirage III jet fighter, Aviatrix Jacqueline Auriol, 41, daughter-in-law of former French President Vincent Auriol, shot up to 37,000 ft. and gunned the ship to a new women's air speed record: 1,336 m.p.h., more than twice the speed of sound...