Word: dreamed
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FRANCE The Grand March Like the high drama that it is, the Fifth Republic of France has its commanding star, but it also has a supporting cast around Charles de Gaulle that is determined to maintain the mystical sense of grandeur. "We will try to accomplish the dream of France," declared Novelist Andre (Man's Fate) Malraux, after taking over as Minister of State in Charge of Cultural Affairs, "to give back life to its past genius, to give life to its present genius, and to welcome the genius of the world." Last week as Malraux rose to explain...
...body, imaginative surgeons tried to transfuse sheep's blood into human patients weakened by too generous bloodletting. Since they had never heard of such things as protein compatibility, it is small wonder that most patients died. In 1678 the French Parliament banned transfusions. Nowadays, no doctor would dream of transfusing animal blood to man. But last week, the medical world was again agog over a report that Italian physicians had used a sheep's blood to help clear the system of a woman dying of mercury poisoning...
...these only eleven have some degree of Australian ownership. But the Aussie who invests in a domestic company can make handsome profits on his own. In a land that is turning out its own diesel engines, railroad cars, jet aircraft and transistor radios, stocks are an investor's dream. Ansett Transport Industries, Clyde Industries (engineering), Broken Hill Proprietary Co. Ltd. (steel) are all up 50% in a year, while Colonial Sugar Refining has jumped 70% and Rothmans Ltd. (cigarettes) a whacking...
...within/ Lady turned out for drinking gin" was standard in 1892. The Opies have collected it as far away as Australia and South Africa, but little English girls are sure that no one else has ever heard it. When they sing a modern hymn to Cinemactress Diana Dors, none dream that it comes straight from a 60-year-old original, "Lottie Collins has no drawers...
...Hill. Colby dreamed of moving to a comelier, 650-acre site on Mayflower Hill, outside Waterville. Beginning in 1933, square-jawed President Franklin W. Johnson hunted the money ceaselessly. One man sent $20,000 just because he pitied Colby as he passed by on the train. But World War II canceled construction and dashed the dream. When Bixler arrived, Mayflower Hill had only three completed buildings and five shells. Old Colby (enrollment: 651) still squatted on the wrong side of the tracks...