Word: fran
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Thirteen months ago, before lunch with three prominent journalists, French President Georges Pompidou remarked: "To each his troubles. Nixon has Watergate, and as for me, I am going to die." None of his three companions-Françoise Giroud of L' Express, Pierre Viansson-Ponté of Le Monde and Roland Faure of L 'Aurore-used the information directly or indirectly while Pompidou lived. Nor did Giroud publish the news that Pompidou was suffering from multiple myeloma (bone-marrow cancer), a fact she had learned prior to the lunch last spring...
...team returned from the South last weekend with an 8-3 record and a couple of injuries, including a hamstring pull to Dave St. Pierre that kept him out of the game. The Saint did get in one trip to the plate to pinch hit. Scott Adzick and Fran Cronin filled in for him in right field...
...guys like Scott and Fran that are going to help this team be a winner," Park said. "We needed them and they came off the bench at the last moment to get the job done...
Enlarging her niche in film history, Gloria Swanson presided in Paris last week over a salute to her career at Henri Langlois' hallowed Cinémathèque Française. The first night coincided with Gloria's 75th birthday, a statistic proved ridiculous when she appeared at the birthday party in a slinky blue and green diagonally striped gown. After blowing out the candles on her cake, Chicago-born Swanson told the crowd assembled at the cinema museum that she had always felt at home in France. Why? "Because with my Swedish ancestors I surely have...
Park took nine rookies on the southern swing, among them sophomores Goetz, Pura and Linehan as well as Fran Cronin, who was the victim of a wild pitching machine which threw one in his eye. He has since recovered from the blow...