Word: grandes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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India's Nehru, initially pleased by Russia's invitation, was now less keen to participate at the risk of promoting Nasserism and looking like a Soviet stooge. France's Charles de Gaulle continued to play his lone hand in the grand manner. Unmoved by Anglo-American disapproval, unshaken by the fact that every other NATO nation opposed his position in an impassioned 5½-hour session of the NATO Council, De Gaulle continued to call for private five-power chats, somewhere in Europe in the "necessary conditions of objectivity and serenity," and never mind about gathering...
Died. Peter Collins, 26, sports-car racer, one of Britain's three top speed drivers (with Stirling Moss and Mike Hawthorn), winner of the British Grand Prix (1958), the French Grand Prix (1956) and the Belgian Grand Prix (1956); when his Ferrari crashed in the German Grand Prix; near Adanau, Germany...
...Frankie Carbo, hoodlum and longtime reputed "Mr. Big" of boxing, ran afoul of a Manhattan grand jury, got socked with a ten-count indictment charging conspiracy, unlicensed matchmaking, acting as undercover manager of professional fighters by using licensed "front...
Broken Deadlock. Last week, as a field of 20 roared away from the starting line in the British Grand Prix at Silverstone, Hawthorn and Moss were deadlocked in the championship competition, with 23 points each, far ahead of all other drivers...
...well as drive. Serving California's rich, irrigated Imperial Valley, an El Centre Cessna dealer reported that he had already sold four single-engined planes to farmers this year at prices from $8,999 to $15,000. A farm organization has put together $1,590 grand tours of Europe for its members this summer. Says the proprietor of Knoust's Party Shop in Phillipsburg. Mo. (pop. 170), noting that farmers are among his best customers for cocktail shakers, blenders and bar glasses: "The farmer around here is an urbane host. The cocktail before dinner is as much...