Word: fran
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...year. A walkout by the Soviets at Geneva could occur at any time after the vote; the only uncertainty was over how the walkout would occur, and exactly when. In the tense interlude, the new stage in the Euromissile campaign was dramatically summed up by French President François Mitterrand in a national television appearance. Said he: "The crisis we are experiencing is the most serious the world has known since Berlin and Cuba...
Abbie Hoffman, '60s radical, on an article suggesting Howdy Doody was a subversive show: "I was into Kukla, Fran and Ollie. Howdy Doody was obviously a puppet being controlled by Authoritarian Bob Smith...
Voters can send the committee a message to this effect in today's election. In the city's system of proportional representation, voting the number 1 is the most important, and students registered to vote in Cambridge should consider challenger Fran Cooper for this selection...
...other NATO capitals, reaction centered on the lack of prior U.S. consultation. Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, also the leader of a Commonwealth nation, said that he was "astonished" by the U.S. reticence. The government of French President François Mitterrand termed the U.S. invasion "a surprising action in relation to international law," and said that "the people of Grenada must recover without delay the right to determine their destiny." The government of West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl issued an unusually blunt statement declaring that "if we had been consulted we would have advised against it." In Italy, Socialist...
...this rich compendium, Novelist Mordecai Richler attempts to lift humorists out of the high chair and onto the Louis Quinze. He ransacks old collections and ranges through the century, from Stephen Leacock to Fran Lebowitz. Anything that smacks of adolescence is jettisoned: "You will meet with no Dorothy Parker here... I found her comic stories brittle, short on substance." And nothing mild is allowed: to go through Robert Benchley's work is "to discover a good many of his sketches astonishingly bland, disarmingly gentle." The 65 pieces that pass Richler's scrutiny are trenchant, acrimonious and sharp. Most...