Word: gravely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Breakfast (mutton chops) was followed by an hour-and-a-half discussion of African problems, in which they agreed-as a communiqué later put it-that there is "cause of grave concern" because the Algerian problem has not been solved. With an effervescent Bourguiba tugging at his arm, Ike went off to view Tunisia's gifts to the President: a delicately boned little Persian-Arabian gelding called Ghali (Precious) and two yearling desert gazelles. The two Presidents then drove to the nearby American cemetery, past crowds of women who hailed Ike with a birdlike warbling that sounded like...
...buried quietly, with no flowers, no eulogies, in Mount Carmel Cemetery, known as the Boot Hill of gangsters. Near by are the tombs of Frank ("The Enforcer") Nitti and Paul ("Needle Nose") La Briola. Dion O'Banion is also buried there, and near the Touhy plot is a grave site reserved for Anthony ("Tough Tony") Accardo, kingpin of Chicago's rackets, and present unchallenged boss of the Capone...
...touchiness increased with the U.S. abstention in the U.N. Assembly vote on Algeria, which France did not take as indifferently as the U.S. expected (TIME, Dec. 21) and with Eisenhower's joint declaration with Tunisian President Bourguiba that the continued fighting in Algeria was "a cause of grave concern." When Secretary of State Herter, arriving in Paris, opened a courtesy call on French Foreign Minister Maurice Couve de Murville with the remark that "I have come to speak to you about this week's events," Couve put on the chill act: "I prefer myself to talk about last...
...Charles de Gaulle, President of France, in the final volume of his memoirs (still to be published in the U.S.), made Himmler's message public and added: "Remove the flattery of myself contained in this message from the edge of the grave* and there certainly remained some truth in the glimpse of future possibilities that it offered...
...THEODORE ROOSEVELT, by Stefan Lorant (640 pp.; Doubleday; $15), will seem as essential to admirers of Teddy Roosevelt as Lorant's Lincoln is to worshipers of Honest Abe. The text is painstaking rather than incisive, but the 750 pictures have the cumulative effect of a cradle-to-grave biography that hardly requires words to give it significance...