Word: bayeux
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...days later. But De Gaulle was unperturbed. As soon as he landed in France, he declined an invitation to lunch with Field Marshal Montgomery. "We have not come to France to have luncheon with Montgomery," he said scornfully, and headed straight for the first sizable town to be liberated-Bayeux. He promptly took over and installed his faithful deputy Francois Coulet as administrative head of the region. Coulet promptly fired the incumbent Vichyite subprefect, whom the British had instructed to stay on the job, and replaced him with a Resistance fighter. It was a simple coup d'etat: when...
Becket is a cerebral film spectacle based on the play by Jean Anouilh, in which English history wars with an impudent Gallic wit. Director Peter Glenville has flung the drama onto the screen like a vast Bayeux tapestry, held fast with the lancet-sharp performances of Peter O'Toole as Henry II, England's first Plantagenet ruler, and of Richard Burton as the 12th century martyr Thomas Becket. Henry loved Becket, raised him to eminence as Archbishop of Canterbury, then lost his onetime friend in a struggle between church and state that ended with Becket's murder...
...even handsome. The show has ranged widely over the fields of archaeology, anthropology, astronomy, ecology, mammalogy, oceanography, paleontology, ichthyology, and as often as possible embryology, largely because the museum embryologist happens to be Dr. Evelyn Shaw, a very pretty redhead. This week Collingwood took a look at the magnificent Bayeux Tapestry (some 230 ft. long), and through it at the bloodstained hills of Hastings in 1066 and British national origins. As usual, Adventure was a lively adventure...
...broad transepts of Westminster Abbey, a thousand peers and ladies sat, clothed in velvet and miniver, dazzling in their show of decorations won in peace and war. In the nave, the chivalry of empire unrolled like a Bayeux tapestry. Music played, yet over 7,000 subjects, gathered to honor their Queen while worshiping their God, a hush of dedication hung like a prayer...
...Bayeux balked in the post parade, wanted no part of a race that day. He got left at the post. He really couldn't be blamed: in Europe they didn't have these newfangled starting gates, the horses raced on grass instead of dirt, and most of the tracks ran clockwise instead of counterclockwise. The Aga Khan's Nathoo did a little better. For a mile and a furlong, he hung on the coattails of the leaders before giving it up as a bad job. He was beaten by 31½ lengths...