Word: du
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...forgive her, she commits suicide, and his career hits the skids. Charlie's present is no happier than his past. A couple of his brothers, both criminals, entangle him in a caper, and though Charlie escapes with his life, gunmen riddle his lovely and adoring mistress (Marie du Bois). At film's end, Charlie is back at the bistro, and the moral, if any, seems to be that shooting the piano player might, at least, put the poor devil out of his misery...
...last two, "Ach bleib bei uns" and "Kommst du nun," are fiendishly hard. But Mrs. Pardue tossed them off as though they were elementary exercises...
...Macmillan reinforced his key appointments by naming eleven lively, like-minded younger Tories to second-level posts. Among them: Geoffrey Rippon, 38, an expert on European local government and Britain's housing problems, who was named to the new post of Minister of Public Building and Works; Edward du Cann, also 38, who organized a spectacularly successful investment fund in his early 30s, and now becomes economic secretary to the Treasury; Nigel Fisher, 49, one of the few Tories to denounce the government's bill restricting Commonwealth immigration, who becomes parliamentary under secretary to the Colonial Office...
...Du FONT'S second-quarter sales of $631 million were the highest in its history, and its earnings rose to $2.52 per share, v. $2.15 last year. Du Pont is starting a $50 million program to expand its nylon plants...
...give him enough chance to "exteriorize myself." He turned to conducting and graduated with the conservatory's Premier Prix for leading an orchestra. An offer from an independent record company to make recordings of 18th century French music led Frémaux to his first Grand Prix du Disque (in 1955) and gave him a national reputation. But when he was called back to the Legion in 1956 for duty in Algeria, he had yet to show what he could do in a permanent conducting post...