Word: consulation
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...basis of this British undergraduates' ditty, French Novelist Romain Gary has constructed a modern fable, and good fables, like nursery rhymes, must command belief. As a man of action (he was a hero of the French air force, is now French consul general in Los Angeles), Author Gary understands this well, has written his story in the idiom of documentary journalism. It is completely successful-one of the best narratives to be published in a long time. The Roots of Heaven has won one of France's highest literary awards-the Prix Goncourt -doubtless for the very French...
France's new Premier brought a fresh face into the tired gallery of politicians who have governed France since World War 11. Elected on his 38th birthday, Felix Gaillard became the youngest man to rule France since Napoleon Bonaparte became First Consul in 1799. "Of course," said one of Gaillard's aides last week, "Bonaparte also was very gifted...
...couple of thousand police to set up a blockade on all roads leading into the embattled republic, in the hope of starving out the Communists ("Italy will not send her tanks into San Marino," proclaimed Italy's Foreign Minister Giuseppe Pella righteously). The U.S. sent its young consul splashing through the mud from Florence, Italy to the foundry, to offer recognition to the democratic government. He lingered long enough to join in a toast in brandy, served in cracked glasses set on a cardboard flap torn from a packing case...
Ulich was presented the Commander's Cross of the Merit at the Faculty Club by Werner Von Holleben, German consul in Boston, on behalf of the German nation...
...strength of this yarn, reinforced by the charge that one of the reactionaries "carried a false beard in his hand," the Syrian government next day expelled Stone, 32, onetime Library of Congress employee who has never even been in Guatemala in his life. Also expelled: a U.S. vice consul, and-though nobody had even mentioned his name before-the U.S. military attache...