Word: englands
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...demonstrated his unique mastery of the power of negative thinking. Last week, in Press Conference No. 16, he surpassed himself. "In 100 minutes," as Paris Le Populaire tidily summed it up, "General de Gaulle in the name of France called for secession of French-speaking Quebec in Canada, tossed England out of Europe, threatened the Common Market with destruction, called the U.S. the principal enemy and suavely knifed Israel." But the broadside effort took its toll. The general's skeins of rationality grew considerably tangled in spots, and he tried to make up for the lack with an extra...
...Britain "stripped naked" be fore allowing it to enter the Common Market (see box, opposite page). "I am going to answer you at once," he said slyly. "Nudity for a beautiful creature is natural enough, and for those around her is rather satisfying. But whatever attraction I feel for England, I never said that about her." Having got his guffaws and proved himself one of the boys, he then went on to collect the rest of the questions and to deliver his memorized peroration, all the important questions having been planted with newsmen in advance...
...bestseller in France, and its author is Paris-Match Political Editor Jean-Raymond Tournoux, who conducted more than 1,000 interviews with several hundred people who had talked with De Gaulle over a period of 20 years. In a recent Paris-Match article, Tournoux quoted De Gaulle as saying: "England-I want her in the nude," meaning shorn of all economic and political power before admission to the Common Market. And like most of his bons mots, insists Tournoux, this one has been used by De Gaulle over and over in private conversations. "I was told this...
Chalmers, Gordon A. McKay Professor of Metallurgy, is taking a leave of absence during second semester to study in England. He will write and do research as an Overseer's Fellow at Churchill College, Cambridge, and also visit other British Universities...
...Crimson will face its first big test against Boston University at Watson Rink, and the winner will automatically be ranked with Cornell as a team to beat in New England hockey this season...