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...Blue Beret. In its effort to end the little war on Cyprus, the Security Council unanimously passed a resolution providing for 1) a police force, which will spend three months on the island, 2) a military commander and a mediator, both to be named by Secretary-General U Thant, and 3) the estimated $10 million costs to be borne by the nations sending troops and by hoped-for "voluntary" contributions from other member states of the United Nations. The Security Council, said one U.S. observer, "has issued a Taft-Hartley injunction, and now we've got 90 days...
Jaunty old Canon Kir is a Gallic equivalent of the late Fiorello La Guardia-a Napoleon-sized (5 ft. 3 in.) "autocrat" with no inhibitions. In his normal dress of beret, black cassock and high-laced shoes, Kir occasionally descends on the gendarmé directing traffic at Dijon's Coin du Miroir, takes over, creates monumental traffic tie-ups. At the inauguration of a new public school gymnasium, Kir, cassock and all, shinnied up five feet of rope to answer a photographer's challenge. When he found himself locked out of his apartment, Kir stalked back...
Though two years still remain of his term, France's President Charles de Gaulle has already let it be known that he will run for reelection. In Paris last week, another beret was thrown into the ring, that of breezy, competent Gaston Defferre, 53, mayor of Marseille...
...late 1940s, Dartmouth thought of David Lambuth as a campus character, the compleat English professor in his white suit and black cape, his white beard and black beret, driving his white Packard as absentmindedly as he graded green freshmen. Older generations knew better. Professor Lambuth had a passion for precision in writing; he abhorred the vague and verbose, the prolix and pompous. And in 1923, when his beard was black and his energy abundant, Lambuth compiled The Golden Book on Writing, a 50-page bible that sounded positively Mosaical...
Jackie made other requests, all meant to symbolize things that her husband had stood for. She asked that a member of the Army's Special Forces, wearing the green beret distinctive of those guerrilla warfare specialists, be included among the honor guard. Because of Jack's love of the Navy, she requested that the Navy hymn be played as the casket was carried up the Capitol steps. She invited the Navy Choir and Tenor Luigi Vena, who had sung at her wedding, to sing at the cathedral. Recalling that Jack had recently marveled at an exhibition by Britain...