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...voice advertised as that of Emile Soumialot, president of the Chinese Communist-backed National Liberation Committee. "I am the new Lumumba," the voice ranted. "Just before he left us, Lumumba let it be known that someone stronger than he would come to complete his work. That man, c'est...
Bounding triumphantly from the grueling examinations that won him his lyceée's coveted bachot, Charles de Gaulle, 15, man general's oldest and favorite grandchild, reported that as his examination code name he had used "L'eétat, c'est moi." Despite dark suspicions that "certain professors are intimidated by my name," he nevertheless flunked Latin, pulled through on the strength of his French and history, which surprised few of his fellow students, among whom he is already famous for his imitations of Grandpa. "I am a Gaullist," he explains, grandly...
...essential power of the corporation is ownership of the university-buildings, endowment, everything fixed and movable that is Yale. L'université, c'est nous," joked former Corporation Member Dean Acheson. The corporation manages all finance and investment, must give recorded approval to each course of study, faculty appointment and degree. In practice, said Acheson, "we don't interfere with the running of the college. This would be the quickest way to louse things up." Instead, the corporation applies itself seriously to its key job, which is to pick the president of the university, and usually ratifies...
...early Bird of Paradise and his recent Little African Flower spans more than 1,000 compositions, among them such triumphs as Mood Indigo, Solitude and Black, Brown and Beige-and though his form has expanded radically, his substance has never drifted far from jazz. "Le jazz, c'est moi," the Duke seems to say, and students of his music can hardly help but agree...
...Dulce et Decorum est Pro Patria mori...