Word: ch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...told that Dr. Ch'ao Ting-chi, who worked for the Institute of Pacific Relations and subsequently became a high
...name: Charles Edouard Jeanneret), famous for developing the city-in-a-park idea in the '20s. The others: Australia's G. A. Soilleux, Belgium's Gaston Brunfaut, Brazil's Oscar Niemeyer, Britain's Howard Robertson, Canada's Ernest Cormier, China's Ssu-ch'eng Liang, Russia's N. D. Bassov, Swe den's Sven Markelius and Uruguay's Julio Vilamajo...
...week, two cars pulled up to a little-used gate at the Duc de Luynes's 8,000-acre estate near Paris. A few blows of a hammer knocked away the rusty padlock; shadowy figures slipped inside, made a beeline for a cellar window in the 17th century château, got it open, and climbed through...
Police, left without any solid clues, blamed it all on "Le gang des châteaux historiques" (the Historical Castle Mob). Fifty-six châteaux have been robbed since 1946, and none of the loot recovered. French police have a wholesome respect for "le gang's" professionalism in burglary and taste in art objects. They believe that many wealthy art collectors all over the world may have unwittingly purchased the stolen stuff...
...even to the losers, the advantages of playing in the EPU game far outweighed the drawbacks of going it alone. Last week 18 stockholder nations held a solemn board meeting in the Château de la Muette, onetime Paris home of Baron Henri de Rothschild. They decided unanimously that, win or lose, the game must go on, at least for another year. But medievalism in the European economy was proving abominably hard...