Word: dufour
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...COULDN'T resist a recent offer to take a guided tour of Harvard's central kitchen, located somewhere beneath Eliot and Kirkland Houses. Following Paul DuFour, assistant director of the kitchen, down a dizzying spiral staircase, we arrived somewhat disoriented in a maze of underground tunnels...
...meat preparation area, DuFour told us that over 19008-ounce steaks were sliced for steak night. Soup was cooking in 80 gallon vats on one side of the kitchen and trays of lasagna were piled ten high on the other side...
Another paratroop colonel calmly admitted that the police had begged his assistance, but he did nothing. A third, Colonel Henri Dufour, testified he had also told General Challe that he would not fire on the insurrectionists. When French Premier Michel Debre hurried to Algiers, Dufour advised him not to count on the army because "this is a political problem; it needs a political solution...
...fact-finding" mission, discovered one self-evident fact: the Army's "consternation" at the possibility of an Algerian republic or a unilateral cease-fire by France. At the burial ceremony last week of ten Foreign Legion paratroopers killed in battle with the F.L.N., tough Colonel Jean Dufour, with tears in his eyes, said: "It is not possible their sacrifice has been in vain. It is not possible that our cries of anguish should be ignored by our compatriots in France...
...South and elsewhere, editors who resisted the call to arms, pointing out instead that Ike's and Monty's hindsights on Gettys burg only reflect a verdict long accepted by the U.S. Army and most historians: it was Lee's worst-fought battle. Columnist Pie Dufour observed in the New Orleans States: "These armchair generals are on solid ground, believe it or not." And the Raleigh, N.C. News and Observer argued that Lee's own view of his performance at Gettysburg was at variance with the "Southern Oratory" used to defend it. This was reasonable...