Word: fontainebleau
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...Gurdjieff, who died in 1949, enjoyed his peak vogue among highbrows in low spirits during the '203 when he operated an "Institute for the Harmonious Development of Man" at Fontainebleau, France. Crux of his medical doctrine: that man has three natures, intellectual, emotional and instinctive, and gets ill when he develops one at the expense of the other two. Cures practiced at Fontainebleau included tree-chopping and complicated "dance-exercises" to any of 5,000-odd tunes composed by Gurdjieff. For Katherine Mansfield, he prescribed a stay in a cowloft, so that she coftld inhale the air the cows...
...first big party for staffers from Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers in Europe was held by British Field Marshal Montgomery on the lawn before the 17th Century castle of Courances near Fontainebleau. Among the guests who sipped drinks à I'anglaise (lukewarm and weak) and chatted with the host: General & Mrs. Eisenhower...
...Eisenhower and Gruenther take up their task in Europe early in January, they will have at their disposal the staff groundwork laid by the five Western Union governments (Britain, France, Belgium, The Netherlands, Luxembourg). Last week Western Union agreed to merge its two-year-old joint staff (headquartered at Fontainebleau under British Field Marshal Lord Montgomery) with the new NATO high command...
Western Union, comprising the five Brussels Treaty powers-the United Kingdom, France and the Benelux nations. The Permanent Defense Organization of Western Union (Uniforce) at Fontainebleau theoretically commands a united Western European army (Uniter), an air force (Uniair) and a navy (Unimer). Actually, the forces are united only on paper...
...drive in Korea spurred Western Europe into action. At Fontainebleau last week the defense ministers of the Brussels pact nations (Britain, France, Benelux) agreed to increase armed forces and .speed war production...