Word: confirmed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Rumor that De Gaulle was under the knife sped through Paris and the world the next morning. The staff at the Elysee Palace, De Gaulle's official residence, refused for hours either to confirm or deny the story; they may not have known the truth themselves, for the chef prepared the presidential lunch as usual. Stock prices tumbled, then recovered, on the Paris Bourse...
...statistical studies next fall confirm this forecast, the class will have a 57-43 public school-private school ratio and average college board aptitude scores hovering around the 700 mark...
Robert J. McCloskey, State Department press officer, said yesterday that he was unable to confirm the decision, but that it "seems likely" that Asseyev would return to the Soviet Union. The State Department is expected to issue a complete statement sometime this week...
...Sureme Court and the Justice Department have acted with fine discrimination in the Cuba sugar case. By ruling 8-1 against United States sugar interests that lost property in Cuba, the Court conceded a petty victory to Fidel Castro in order to confirm an important principle of international...
...dream." Says he: "One has an impulse to bring glad tidings to someone. My sense of literature is a sense of giving, not a diminishment. I know almost no pleasure greater than having a piece of fiction draw together disparate incidents so that they relate to one another and confirm that feeling that life itself is a creative process, that one thing is put purposefully upon another, that what is lost in one encounter is replenished in the next, and that we possess some power to make sense of what takes place...