Word: ens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...others: official receptions for the Supreme Court, the Vice President and the Speaker, the Diplomatic Corps, the Cabinet, and the Military. *Walter Terry, the New York Herald Tribune's dance critic, invited to cover the performance, recalled that a toe dancer named Mile. Celeste had danced en pointe for an enchanted Andrew Jackson in the Cabinet Room in 1836 and had become a political cause celebre (an anti-Jackson cartoon implying frivolity in high places was titled "The Celeste-al Cabinet''). Four years later, the sensational Fanny Elssler, the great European ballerina, was so popular in Washington...
...important, the crew's Soviet colleagues were still avoiding trouble along the Autobahnen and in the air corridors. For the third straight week, U.S., British and French commercial planes and military convoys moved into Berlin without harassment. There were MIGs in the skies, all right, but they were en route to spring maneuvers in East Germany...
...phonograph and puts on a record. The music that serves as his alarm clock is always by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, whose work Barth describes as a "constant of my existence." "When the angels praise God in Heaven," Barth once wrote, "I am sure they play Bach. However, en famille they play Mozart, and then God the Lord is especially delighted to listen to them...
...hours in the hope that its owner would show up. Naturally, no one appeared, so the police decided to search the car. There on the back seat, wrapped in newspapers, were eight rolled-up canvases by Cézanne that had been taken from an exhibition in Aix-en-Provence last August. Valued at $2,000,000, the Cézannes were the loot in the most daring art theft since the Mono, Lisa disappeared from the Louvre 50 years...
Confident that Boualem would help him, Gardes slipped into the countryside and headed for the Ouarsenis region with a commando of 140 men. Disguised in French uniforms, they captured three French outposts en route before their startled army defenders could fire a shot...