Word: biarritz
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...great that the U.S. embassy had told all 5,000 American residents of Lebanon to stay indoors for the day. But Dag Hammarskjold, imperturbable professional bird of good omen, brought the country-at least temporarily-its quietest days since the revolt began. He moved swiftly into headquarters in the Biarritz Hotel commanding a magnificent view of the Mediterranean, and began conferences with the U.N. observers who had already arrived under the Security Council directive to "ensure that there is no illegal infiltration of personnel or supply of arms or other material across the Lebanese borders...
Died. Lucien Lelong, 68, Paris dress designer and parfumeur; of a heart attack; in Biarritz, France. As president of the fashion-ruling Chambre Syndicate de la Couture, Lelong persuaded the World War II Nazi invaders not to shift the fashion capital from Paris to Berlin because only in Paris could couture flourish, and German-dominated postwar Europe would need a flourishing couture to compete with Manhattan's Seventh Avenue...
...graduated as puzzled and lost as when he had arrived, still trying to improve his mind in order to define and live the good life. Perhaps too that was why, a few years later, he decided that he was permanently lost, and jumped out of a hotel window in Biarritz in order to define himself...
...insecurity and flickering suspicions, Ann Woodward sometimes created volcanic public scenes with her husband. In El Morocco one night, she scratched Bill Woodward's face until it bled, after he pulled out a handkerchief with a lipstick stain on it. At the Marquis de Cuevas' ball in Biarritz two years ago (TIME. Sept. 14, 1953), Ann, dressed as a red devil, reacted violently when she saw her husband dancing with Carmen Sainte, the beautiful Chilean-born wife of a big French rope-and-hemp man. During the dance, Mme. Sainte wrapped her enormous Spanish shawl around Woodward...
...Southwestern Europe, it was Pelota Week. From Biarritz on the Atlantic coast to Orthez and Oloron-Sainta-Marie in the heart of the Pyrenees, Basques were playing their national game. Shepherds and schoolboys, fishermen and priests, customs inspectors and smugglers ran each other ragged as they whipped a goatskin-covered ball against any convenient wall and went through the swift gyrations of pelota, that rugged ancestor of jai alai, handball and most other court games...