Word: careers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...downfall of Pierre Pilimlin's government were shocked and disheartened by Pflimlin's appearance in the De Gaulle Cabinet. As for those outside France, who feared De Gaulle's well-known propensity for going it alone, they could take consolation in his choice for Foreign Minister, Career Diplomat Maurice Couve de Murville, a stanch supporter of NATO. At midnight of his first day in power, Premier de Gaulle lifted censorship (see PRESS...
Foreign Minister: Maurice Couve de Murville, 51, lawyer, financial expert, career diplomat. Son of a judge in Reims, and a Protestant, Couve de Murville became Inspector of Finance at 23. He escaped from Vichy France to North Africa during the war, served as Finance Minister under De Gaulle. After serving as Ambassador to Egypt and representative to NATO, he became Ambassador to the U.S. in 1955-56, but nearly lost his job when he angered Antoine Pinay by a U.S. radio interview. Foreign Minister Pinay had led a French walkout from the U. N. over Algeria, but Ambassador Couve...
...teen-ager in Texas, John F. McMahon beat the drum and tootled the saxophone for the Volunteers of America, a U.S. offshoot of the Salvation Army that his father and mother had joined. Later he embarked on a promising career in an industrial catering business, but at 24 he decided that "there are things more important than money." He went back to the Volunteers...
...Propagation of the Faith, he was a stricken man. A blood clot forced the amputation of his right arm (TIME, May 5). On the mend, he was felled by a stroke, later complicated by heart disease. Last week at 70. and at the peak of a brilliant career, Samuel Cardinal Stritch died...
Soprano Callas' exit looked to some operagoers like a retreat in her six-year-old war against Soprano Renata Tebaldi. Callas won the first battle in 1955, when her rival disappeared from La Scala; Tebaldi has not sung there since. But while Tebaldi began a brilliant new career at Manhattan's Met, her fans made things hot for Callas in Milan. When hissing Tebaldi rooters pelted Callas with radishes, Manager Antonio Ghiringhelli put up to 150 cops into La Scala, soothed Callas with public kisses and bales of flowers...