Word: genevi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...every day, but the tombstone firm does not prosper because the monuments are worth more than they are sold for. The characters in Obelisk are not especially odd, but the times make everyone seem to be living off the top of his head. Ludwig divides his time between beautiful Geneviève at the insane asylum and a levelheaded, strong-bodied girl acrobat who wants a man able to buy some groceries. In the end, he loses both...
...members of the International Armistice Commission (Indian, Canadian and Polish) make their headquarters. Led by a gang of khaki-clad youngsters, refugees from North Viet Nam, armed with Tonkinese machetes, the crowd broke the closed gates of the bar and poured into the lobby like a tidal wave. Madame Geneviève Tardy, busy at the switchboard, fell bleeding under the blow of a chair...
French Flight Nurse Genèvive de Galard-Terraube, 29, rejecting the label of "angel" despite her 56 days of selfless ministration to the sick and wounded in Dienbienphu, arrived to visit the U.S. at the invitation of the U.S. Congress.* In Manhattan, Nurse Geneviève was treated to a parade up lower Broadway. Next day she hopped down to Washington and was soon sitting in the front row of the House of Representatives' diplomatic gallery. Gleefully getting around an inflexible House rule that no gallery visitor may be introduced or even pointed out, Minnesota's Republican...
...home in Versailles, French Air Force Nurse Geneviève de Galard Terraube, 29, the heroic "Angel of Dienbienphu," was photographed and asked by newsmen whether she will visit the U.S. Geneviève was all for the idea, but her hopes so far are pinned on "a letter telling me that a group of Congressmen were hoping to invite me as an official guest of the U.S." Word drifted around Genoa that Egypt's deposed King Farouk, whose loutish antics have endeared him no more to Italians than to the Egyptians he liberated by departing, had not exactly...
...Geneviéve de Galard had flown to Dienbienphu many times before by moonlight (the planes would not tempt Communist fire by day), but this time the C-47 sprang an oil leak and could not be repaired until morning. Promptly at dawn the Communists knocked the C-47 °ut of the war, and Nurse de Galard was marooned with the garrison. "The boys have invited me to stay for the siege," she radioed her mother...