Word: christiane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Robe by Christian Dior...
...city in the past three years. In the next few weeks nearly every U.N. country this side of the Iron Curtain will be visited by a prominent Frenchman, explaining France's position in Algeria. Emile Roche, president of the Economic Council, is already in Buenos Aires. Christian Pineau will go to Brazil, Senate President Gaston Monnerville (a Negro) to Peru, and Foreign Office Under Secretary Maurice Faure to Indonesia, India, Pakistan and Ceylon...
Father Jacques Cua, shepherd of the third largest Roman Catholic flock in South Viet Nam, was a man who worked wonders. In his crowded parish in Giadinh, just outside Saigon, the happily smiling, moonfaced little priest was always helping someone. If a Christian family wanted to find a good husband for a daughter, Father Jacques took care of it. If a parishioner needed a job, Father Jacques found him one. When the parish needed a new church, Father Jacques himself scrounged the bricks, helped to build it. He provided his people with free movies, medicine, scholarships, as well as advice...
Under Turkish rule, Constantinople's famed Christian shrines, like the great basilica of Saint Sophia, were restored and refurbished to the glory of Allah. Slim minarets rose skyward alongside rounded Byzantine domes. New architectural jewels, like the Blue Mosque of Sultan Ahmed I, sprang up to rival the old, and the hiving humanity drawn by commerce to this natural crossroads of land and sea began to fill every available crevice with the insignificant architecture of its daily life...
Fine Grinding. In Wilmington, Del., John Dudek, 70, who lost a wallet containing $51.62 in 1929, was astounded when a woman rang his doorbell and handed him the wallet, explaining: "It was like a God-sent gift. But we're good Christian people, and for 28 years we thought, on and off, of the money. So we finally decided we'd better return...