Word: edgard
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Movement for Reform Leader: Edgard Pisani, 49 Seats: 1 Candidates...
...charts-he recently signed a contract to develop new talent for Columbia Records. Guercio quit college "when John Kennedy died and the Beatles were born," went on the road with such groups as Chad & Jeremy and The Mothers of Invention. Like his idol, the late avant-garde composer Edgard Varèse, he is given to such pronouncements as, "A record is sound forever, not just a disk of plastic," and, "I'm desperately trying to wake the world...
...Morocco, and expressing his confidence in his ministers-a sign that he was not about to buckle under to French demands. With that, Hassan canceled a trip to Paris, where he was to have met De Gaulle last week. The French retaliated by canceling the visit of Agriculture Minister Edgard Pisani, who was to have dedicated a new agricultural institute in Rabat, a gift from France...
...Died. Edgard Varese, 81, Paris-born avant-garde composer, whose ear-shattering attempts (with sirens, sleigh bells, clanking chains) to extend the boundaries of music beyond conventional instruments went unnoticed until the mid-1950s, when the noisy young composers of electronic music "rediscovered" him and hailed him as their mas ter; of complications following surgery; in Manhattan...
High Price. This seemed to offer the speediest way to conclusion of the whole farm question, but when De Gaulle first read about the scheme in the French papers last March, he hit the ceiling. Summoning Foreign Minister Maurice Couve de Murville and French Agricultural Minister Edgard Pisani, he demanded to know why he had not been warned about such supranational schemes in advance. They had to admit that the matter was news to them as well...