Word: fatefulness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...capital, she had reached the stage where she "complained of Indians staring at her" and attacked O'Connor with chopper, razor blades and cutlery. Soon, "L" was tucked away "in a rubber-walled cell." O'Connor came to the brink of the same fate. "Through lack of a normal sex-life . . . and through drink, delusions set in . . ." A couple of years later, "I phoned a psychiatrist: 'Shall I,' I said, 'hold on, or come to you?' He said: 'Hold on'; which I did." Slowly, "I ... began to feel my way to health...
Secretary of State: André Malraux, 56, novelist, art historian, one of France's most brilliant intellectuals. Malraux was a revolutionary in the 19205 and '303 (and relived it in his novels-Man's Fate, Man's Hope), but denounced Communism on the signing of the Nazi-Soviet pact of 1939, fought bravely in the resistance, became so disgusted by parliamentary paralysis after the war that he served six years as a De Gaulle lieutenant, has since concentrated on art and archaeology...
...Great Silence. The delicate-and for the first two weeks, bloodless-state of balance could not last indefinitely, for two great forces were in a deadly duel to determine the fate of France. Defending the Fourth Republic was testy Premier Pierre Pflimlin, armed with constitutionality and the tough internal security forces commanded by stooped, whitehaired Interior Minister Jules Moch.* On the attack were the insurgents of Algeria, armed with the bulk of France's effective military strength and the full-throated approval of the Algiers mob. Off to one side, waiting for a summons to take over, stood towering...
...wings stood the waiting Charles de Gaulle, but doggedly holding the center of the parliamentary stage was Pierre Pflimlin, new Premier of France and head of France's 25th government since the war, in whose hands lay the fate of the Fourth Republic...
Trying to escape her mink-lined fate as an offstage noise, Gloria has just recorded a new Columbia album, appeared last week on Art Linkletter's House Party, when she sang (through electronic ingenuity) all four parts of a quartet accompanying herself. "I like making money," she admits. "But I'd like to be known for all the things I've done. Nobody knows Gloria Wood...