Word: calme
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Heavy Toll. After eight days of relative calm, violence flared afresh when a 17-year-old boy, fleeing from police in a town outside Paris, jumped into the Seine and drowned. Enraged, Paris students surged from the Sorbonne and the coffee shops back onto the boulevards, rebuilt barricades and fought an all-night running battle with police. Fighting also erupted in Toulouse, Lyon, St.-Nazaire and the automaking town of Sochaux, where two townspeople were killed. The renewed rioting took a heavy toll of the French economy, stalling the back-to-work movement at a time when 500,000 workers...
...million. Meanwhile, the world money markets continued to show encouraging signs of greater stability, Although the price of gold jumped to a record high in Paris-where the government controls on the export of francs were causing Frenchmen to turn to bullion-free-market trading elsewhere remained relatively calm...
Amid the swirl, the Kennedys appeared calm. TIME Correspondent Hays Gorey looked at the man he had long observed in constant motion, now prostrate on a damp concrete floor. Wrote Gorey: "The lips were slightly parted, the lower one curled downwards, as it often was. Bobby seemed aware. There was no questioning in his expression. He didn't ask, 'What happened?' They seemed almost to say, 'So this...
Silent at first, the suspect later repeated over and over: "I wish to remain incommunicado." He did not seem particularly nervous. Reddin described him as "very cool, very calm, very stable and quite lucid." John Doe demanded the details of a sexy Los Angeles murder case. "I want to ask the questions now," he remarked. "Why don't you answer my questions?" He talked about the stock market, an article on Hawaii that he had read recently, his liking for gardening, his belief that criminal justice discriminates against the underdog. When he felt that the investigators were talking down...
...have to! Get the gun, Rafer! Hold him! We don't want another Oswald! Hold him, Rafer . . . The Senator is on the ground! He's bleeding profusely . . . The ambulance has been called for, and this is a terrible thing! . . . Ethel Kennedy is standing by. She is calm, a woman with a tremendous amount of presence . . . The shock is so great my mouth is dry . . . We are shaking as is everyone else. I do not know if the Senator is dead or if he is alive...