Word: chaine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...still favors slim-cut black skirts with sport blouses or wool cardigans. She uses pink lipstick, paints her fingernails and toenails to match, wears her thick hair usually in a chignon. Her voice is full, throaty and resonant. She speaks fluent French, is less sure of her English, chain-smokes Kool cigarettes in a long, gold holder...
Married. G. (for Gerard) David Schine, 30, onetime Army MP and sometime McCarthy sleuth, Schine hotel and movie chain scion; and Sweden's voluptuous Hillevi Rombin, 24, Miss Universe of 1955; in Manhattan...
...little hole-in-the-wall office in flaking, bomb-scarred barracks near the imposing Frankfurt headquarters from which Allied commanders bossed the U.S. and British zones of occupied Germany. "There sat the economics adviser to the conquerors,'' recalls one caller, "almost like a dog on a chain.'' The professor was a torrential talker. To all comers he talked and talked, in the midst of Frankfurt's flattened wreckage, of free private enterprise and the mechanism of Marktwirtschaft, the free-market economy...
...chain-smoked cigarettes, embraced old Resistance buddies and held gracious court for Paris literati at his publisher's reception, Albert Camus admitted generously that he thought the award should have gone to André Malraux, "my early mentor." Even as he chatted, he inadvertently revealed the major qualities that won him the award−an unflagging humanism coupled with an unremitting skepticism. Pressed to make "one wish in the name of humanity," Camus unhesitatingly answered, "Freedom." Asked about his enemies, he replied with a shrewd Gallic twinkle: "One has to know how to make people forgive success...
...that will take him on a year's traveling in Africa, the Mideast and southern Asia. The sun blazed down, and after some 20,000 faithful chanted "Allah Akbar," the young Aga received a signet ring, a robe of many colors, a golden turban, the 49-disked gold chain of Omnipotent Priest and a long curved sword of justice. The pageantry of installation, the Aga's initial assumption of temporal and spiritual leadership over some 20 million widely scattered Ismailis, seemed at times more like a U.S. college May fete than a religious rite. It ended with...