Word: carly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Mitterrand had gone only a few blocks when he noticed that he was being followed by another car. As he later told the story, Onetime Resistance Leader Mitterrand did not panic; instead, he pulled his car to a stop, piled out. leaped over an iron fence into the adjacent Luxembourg Gardens and took cover in a bed of geraniums. Seconds later a burst of submachine-gun fire riddled his empty Peugeot...
...written a letter describing exactly what was going to happen, and had posted it to himself, care of general delivery. When police collected the letter from the post office, they found that it did indeed describe the attack correctly, even pinpointed the spot at which Mitterrand had abandoned his car after the shooting...
...then had Pesquet known exactly where Mitterrand would stop his car? And why had not Mitterrand, onetime Minister of Interior and known to every police prefect in France, insisted from the very beginning upon special police protection? To this, the usually incisive Mitterrand offered a variety of answers: there was not time; he did not propose to be an informer; he was afraid for the safety of his sons. "Now that I look back," he summed up cryptically, "I reckon that I must have been teleguided and intoxicated...
Sarah Lawrence co-eds must depend on their dates and the New Haven rail-road for transportation to New York, since car permission is rarely granted. Safety, inadequate parking facilities, and a desire to keep the college residential are the stated reasons for this regulation, which is unpopular among the students. One dean added that banning cars has the extra advantage of eliminating one difference between the financial haves and have-nots...
...Sarah Lawrence girl likes to think of herself not only as an isolated individual, but as an important part of the college community. Consequently, student organizations form a significant part of campus life. Last year the Student Council decided to give car privileges to seniors, and the recommendation was sent to the Joint Committee, consisting of nine voting members, three of whom are students. Here the proposal was rejected on the grounds outlined above, and the added consideration that seniors should not be treated differently from other students...