Word: gaillarde
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...keep the sheer face of Contractor's Hill from sliding into the vital Gaillard Cut (TIME, May 10) and blocking the Panama Canal, the Canal Co. called for emergency bidding on a contract for the removal of some 2,000,000 cu. yds. of the rocky hill. Seven contracting firms, among them Morrison-Knudsen, world's greatest earth mover, rushed engineers to the canal to study the great fissure splitting the hill. But it was the young and aggressive Tecon Corp. of Dallas that put in the winning offer, 15 minutes before the bidding closed last week...
...most spectacular moment of a transit of the Panama Canal's great Gaillard Cut is the passage below Contractor's Hill, whose sheer rock face, blasted off to make the waterway, rises above ships' decks for 300 ft. Last week it was learned that some or all of this rock face is in danger of toppling into the canal and blocking it. perhaps for months...
17th Century France and Martinique (Marie of the Isles, by Robert Gaillard; A. A. Wyn). The story of a single-minded girl who gets two doctors to certify that she still has her virginity so that she can lose it to the man she loves; told with a strong French accent on sex and sadism...
These messages in hand, Ambassador Dunn drove across the Seine to Pinay's Left Bank residence, the Hotel Matignon. Premier Pinay was "in a meeting," and the Ambassador talked instead to Under Secretary of State Felix Gaillard. Then Dunn gave Gaillard not only the formal letter but-a shocking diplomatic blunder -the private "verbal comments," for Pinay to read for himself...
...Star Summer Review (Sat. 8 p.m., NBC). With Grace Hartman, the Bell Sisters, Slim Gaillard and the Hanneford Family...