Word: dreyfusism
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Seeking Humor. I.O.S. offers a choice of 80 mutual funds. But the U.S.'s high-rated Dreyfus Fund, whose President Jack Dreyfus let Cornfeld handle his fund abroad to start I.O.S., accounts for 75% of sales. Last week I.O.S. launched a fund of its own, the so-called Fund of Funds, consisting of shares from half a dozen mutuals...
...dark shadow of anti-Semitism lies lightly on the U.S. compared to the pogroms and Dreyfus trials, "Crystal Nights" and concentration camps of Europe. The American anti-Semite is often even invisible to himself; a sweet Atlanta matron recently whispered to one of her guests: "Come, I want you to meet him. He's a Jew boy, but very nice"; and there are still those who naively protest: "Some of my best friends are Jews...
...disaster of 1870, when it first became evident that both had suffered a near-mortal decline. Indeed, after Sedan, French militarism developed the assertiveness that the fear of weakness produces; and the Army's hold on the popular imagination was not destroyed even by its defeat in the Dreyfus Affair...
...Twentieth Century (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). Emperor Franz Joseph, Czar Nicholas II, Edward VII, Kaiser Wilhelm, Alexandre Eiffel, Wilbur Wright, Leo Tolstoy, Mrs. Dreyfus and Emile Zola are all on view in "The Turn of the Century." Repeat...
...Professor Francis Jeanson was the leader of an underground network composed largely of intellectuals, Moslem Algerians, and former resistance fighters, supporting the Algerian National Liberation Front (FLN). Along with twenty other Frenchmen and five Algerians, Jeanson was tried for treason this fall, in the same military tribunal where Capt. Dreyfus was sentenced as a traitor in 1894. The defense claimed, "When a people resists oppression, it is entitled to every respect... and all the help one can give it." Jeanson, however, was sentenced in absentia to a prison term of ten years...