Word: chaillot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...corridors of the Palais de Chaillot, United Nations diplomats grabbed lapels and murmured propositions like a band of Chicago wardheelers choosing up a slate of aldermen. The lobbying went on outside the U.N. as well-at cocktail parties, convivial soirees and special opera performances, where diplomats who fought each other by day exchanged chitchat with each other's wives at night. The big plums were three small-power Security Council seats which become vacant at year's end. Everybody quickly settled on two of them-Chile to succeed Ecuador in one of the seats traditionally reserved for Latin...
Lissome Anny Gould, a Parisian nightclub singer, thought some U.N. publicity might be exciting. While press photographers stood by, she waited last Friday on the steps of the Palais de Chaillot, ready to present her pet dove to the first U.N. delegate to appear. Johnny on the spot was Andrei Vishinsky. As shutters snapped, Anny stage-smiled and offered the dove to Vishinsky. "A symbol," said she, "of the peace we all want...
...gold theater of Paris' Palais de Chaillot, Russia laughed a laugh that was heard around the world...
...always wanted to make his name as a dancer, got a chance to exhibit his fancy footwork. Taking a night off from his boxing tour of Europe, he won a unanimous decision tap-dancing for an appreciative audience at a theatrical benefit in Paris' Palais de Chaillot...
Pirle Tuchings '54 and Connaught O'Connell '52 are shown primping for tonight's 8:30 p.m. opening of "The Trojan War Will Not Take Place" in Wellesley's Alumnae Hall. The modern anti-war satire by Jean Girandoux, author of "Mad Woman of Chaillot," opens in the Central Court of Fogg...