Word: ch
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...courtyard. Two other officers were also in custody, but the oddest of the suspects was the alleged ringleader, Mme. Paule Rousselot de Liffiac, 55, a pipe-smoking, low-salaried English translator at the school, the mother of six children, who was picked up at her 15-room 18th century château in a town south of Lyon. The Ecole Militaire, where Napoleon learned to soldier, is the top academy for the French military, and a hotbed of anti-Gaullism among the veterans of Algeria who think he let them down...
...study of the Loire Valley, Fantus will only recommend the types of industries that should be located at various spots, and the French will find the companies. But for worried tourists who picture factory smokestacks raining soot on scenic châteaus, Yaseen has a word of comfort. "It might make economic sense to put a steel factory next to a château," he says, "but it would not make sociological sense. We will have to balance truth with wisdom...
...struck with the sight of new cities, new highways and railroads, burgeoning new industries, happy people, smiling children. Crime has all but vanished, slums are clean and filled with bookstores and nurseries, soldiers are as dedicated as young priests, everyone conscientiously does his daily t'ai chi ch'aun calisthenics. Even the Yellow River, now dammed and tamed like everything else in China, runs blue-"blue as the Aegean," Snow says...
CHARLES DE GAULLE lives in stone houses. In cosmopolitan Paris, home is the buff-colored Elysée Palace, an elaborate 18th century pleasure dome that belonged to Mme. de Pompadour, mistress of King Louis XV. In rural Colombey-les-Deux-Eglises, home is a 14-room château of grey limestone surrounded by formal gardens and groves of elm and pine. In both, le grand Charles tries to keep life as simple and uncomplicated as possible...
Excitement was missing, too, from the 18th century arias with which Miss Berganza opened her recital: she sang them very nicely indeed (except for a disastrous trill in Handel's Lascia ch'io pianga), but instead of the grand manner and absolute command of style so necessary for Alessandro Scarlatti or Cherubini, she provided a good deal of hand-clasping and those imploring looks to the heavens which ought to be banned forever from the concert stage. In Rossini's Non Piu mesta (from La Cenerentola)--and Miss Berganza has something of a reputation as a Rossini specialist--one again...