Word: emile
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...elect's press entourage, the baby's birth was the first crisis since the election. Newsmen had been filled in minute by minute as they flew back to Washington, but one inevitably sought detail was missing from the intimate picture. What did the baby look like? Pierre Emil Salinger. Kennedy's press secretary, seemed slightly flustered, could only stammer: "Aw, it looks like a baby ... It has some hair . . . The hair is dark . . . I'm very poor at descriptions of children...
Force-feed to Health. Roosevelt, too, says Schlesinger, knew himself as the bridegroom of a worldwide storm. When Biographer Emil Ludwig asked him his purpose, F.D.R. replied, "To obviate revolution." Just when the Supreme Court seemed to stymie Roosevelt's legal reforms, he resumed the offensive, pushed through Congress social security, banking and utility reorganization, collective bargaining and a graduated income tax. It is not entirely clear from Schlesinger's account whether Roosevelt jumped or was pushed into the second New Deal. There was the pressure of 9,000,000 unemployed, the falling debris of social experiments that...
...EMIL D. CRISCITIELLO
Lumumba went into hiding, but Foreign Minister Justin Bomboko had the courage to mount a chair outside Parliament and quiet the rioters. He led a delegation of three sweaty soldiers to Prime Minister Lumumba. Their demands: 1) removal of the Belgian commander in chief, Lieut. General Emil Janssens, a strict disciplinarian, 2) replacement of all other Belgian officers and noncoms by Congolese, 3) general raises in pay and rank. Lumumba hastily agreed. In the most sweeping army promotion in history, he advanced every Congolese soldier by one grade, making the Force Publique the only army in the world without...
...tone poems and suites, 62 conductors, 61 instrumentalists, 72 singers, ten operatic and orchestral groups, and 161 musical terms. From this generous supply every player must, of course, select his own repertory of names. A good random beginner's list might include Hector Berlioz ("EC-tor BEAR-li-oss"), Emil Waldteufel ("VAAL-toy-ful"), Kurt Weill's Die Dreigrosch-enoper ("Dee Dry-GROSH-en-oper"), Puccini's Gianni Schicchi ("Johnny SKEE-ky"), Prokofiev's ballet, Chout ("Shoo!"), Conductor Eugen Jochum ("OY-gen YOK-hum"), Pianist Jorge Bo-let ("HOAR-hay Bo-LETT"). Advanced players will discover certain unaccountable omissions: where...