Word: du
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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FICTION 1. The Glass-Blowers, Du Maurier (1, last week) 2. Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour An Introduction, Salinger (2) 3. Seven Days in May, Knebel and Bailey (3) 4. Grandmother and the Priests, Caldwell (8) 5. The Sand Pebbles, McKenna...
...just possible that the President did not know what he was getting into when he started the book. Once during a lunch with friends, he asked one of the wives present: "What have you been reading?" Answer: Le Repos du Guer-rier (The Warrior's Rest). Apparently thinking it a military tome, the President said eagerly: "Ah, tres bien. Could you lend it to me?" Actually, the book, whose movie version starred Brigitte Bardot, was a sultry item dealing more with conquests in the bedroom than on the battlefield...
...doors are endlessly opened and closed. Linde is using nine miles of pipeline to pump oxygen and nitrogen along the Houston Ship Channel to Humble Oil, Sheffield Steel and other users; Air Reduction has opened a 22-mile nitrogen pipeline along the Delaware River to service such customers as Du Pont, SunOlin and Shell Chemical...
This splendid sequel to The Splendid Century, British Historian W. H. Lewis's remarkable study of the Sun King at the high noon of his power, has just been brought out in paperback. In it Lewis skillfully uses the checkered life of the Due du Maine, Louis' most maligned illegitimate son, to chronicle the crumbling of French grandeur and the approach of le déluge...
Convulsive Barking. Louis Auguste de Bourbon, first (and last) Due du Maine, was a man all but killed by royal kindness. The son of Madame de Montespan, Louis' most beautiful mistress, he became protégé of Madame de Maintenon, Louis' most enduring love. Thoughtful, diffident, unworldly, the Due had no gift for the great stage onto which fate and father thrust...