Word: continente
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THE Western alliance today is seriously strained by the ever-widening political rift between President John Kennedy and President Charles de Gaulle. At stake are the future leadership of Europe and the shape of the Continent's fast-emerging political union. The conflict reached a climax last week when...
DE GAULLE contends that NATO-which in private he often dismisses as "the American command"-might no longer use its U.S.-controlled nuclear weapons to defend the Continent now that Russia can retaliate directly against the U.S. France must have its own "modest" nuclear deterrent, he argues, in order to...
Jenny Lind's friends included Berlioz, Meyerbeer, Schumann and Brahms. Her great friend Felix Mendelssohn loved to sit at his piano and explore her upper register. Frederic Chopin referred to her affectionately as "this Swede." She often rode along the trails of Wimbledon with the 78-year-old Duke...
Thonet Industries Inc. of Manhattan, heir to the century-old trademark, is now a bustling commercial furniture maker whose no-nonsense designs bear little kinship to bentwood. Somewhat surprised by all the excitement over vintage Thonet today, the firm nonetheless still "makes available" a modern version of the classic rocker...
Little Lost Soul. All this clearly leads to more specialization, upsetting those who cherish the values of general education-and four years of it in a liberal arts atmosphere. They see colleges becoming mere cram schools for graduate study, and at some prestige campuses, 90% of all B.A.s do go...