Word: henri
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...table was sold at auction in London. It had been made in France somewhere around 1780, probably by a craftsman named Martin Carlin: a spindly, exquisite and useless object, all tulipwood and Sevres porcelain plaques, the very epitome of the court taste of Louis XVI. An Iranian oilman named Henri Sabet paid $415,800 for it and so became the owner of the most expensive piece of furniture in history...
...others: Britain's Lord Ismay (1952-57), Belgium's Paul-Henri Spaak (1957-61), The Netherlands' Dirk Stikker (1961-64), Italy's ManlioBrosio...
...sport that measures superiority in hundredths of a second, the French have been winning by as much as three seconds-the equivalent of ten lengths in horse racing or 50 yds. in the mile run. In the first downhill race of the 14-week World Cup series, Henri Duvillard won by well over a second. At Berchtesgaden, Germany, Jean-Noel Augert swept the slalom by a margin of nearly 2½ sec. And in the giant slalom at Val-d'Isère France, Patrick Russel nipped Augert by six-tenths of a second while trouncing Italy...
Sock of Rice. Missing with Burrows was A.P.'s Henri Huet, 43. Born in Viet NaM. Huet had photographed the Indochinese war for more than 20 years and in 1967 was a Capa award winner. Also missing were U.P.L.'s Kent Potter, 23, a three-year Viet Nam veteran, and Freelance Photographer Keisaburo Shimamoto, on assignment for Newsweek. Their presumed deaths brought to 32 the number of newsmen killed in Indochina since...
Cradled in the crook of his arm or clutched tightly in his palm, the camera is his constant companion. At any instant, any place, Henri Cartier-Bresson may suddenly lift his battered Leica to eye level, click the shutter and return instantly to whatever he was doing before what he calls "the decisive moment." Capturing such moments-usually joy, sadness, love, a memory reflected in a face or posture-has been Cartier-Bresson's life and profession for more than three decades. He has become the master of the documentary photograph...