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Recumbent Wishes. In 1957, full of years, Herriot died at 84. Ex-Premier Guy Mollet called him "the very incarnation of the Republic." Said ex-Premier Pierre Mendès-France: "For 34 years I have admired, followed and loved him." Herriot's free-thinking friends were at first startled, and then indignant, to hear that on his deathbed, Lifelong Agnostic Edouard Herriot had gone back into the Roman Catholic Church, and been buried with church ritual...
Last week the dispute came to open warfare. The first barrage was laid down by Biologist Jean Rostand, 65, who reputedly knows more about frogs than any man alive, and who had been elected to Herriot's vacant seat in the Académie Française. Wearing the academy's braided uniform and cocked hat and with a sword dangling awkwardly at his side, Rostand, as custom requires, used his acceptance speech to eulogize the academician whose place he took. Herriot's last moments, according "to certain witnesses," said Rostand, were not "in harmony with...
...nanny and the working-class "mum" alike, the Big Pram has become in postwar Britain a symbol of status akin to the automobile in U.S. oneupmanship. But at least one winter baby in England next year is due for a hand-me-down. As Buckingham Palace prepared for the first child to be born to a reigning British monarch in more than 100 years,* the old pram in which Queen Elizabeth herself was wheeled was dug out of the palace lumber room, tastefully refurbished in anticipation of its new royal occupant...
...Predecessor: Queen Victoria's youngest daughter, Beatrice, who inherited her mother's longevity, died in 1944 aged 87, leaving one of the world's largest autograph collections. Elizabeth's first two children, Anne and Charles, were born before she became Queen...
...than $1 billion between that day and this, not counting extensive military equipment-Chiang's Formosa did survive, and one recent evening, the Gimo, accompanied by Madame Chiang, drove down to the heart of Taipeh to see the solid evidence of a decade of economic achievements at the First Annual Trade Fair of the Republic of China. "Hao, hao [good, good]," he said, as he passed through row after row of stalls proudly displaying Formosa-made trucks, machine tools, plastic toys-even Ivy League shirts...