Word: henry
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...really bad-and this has taken much steam out of the anti-Communist position. Nikita's "reasonable" approach has helped the Italian Reds gain strength, has revived dreams of a new popular front among once solidly anti-Communist French Socialists, has even prompted Belgian Foreign Minister Paul Henri Spaak to say that the removal of U.S. nuclear stockpiles from Western Europe might not be such a bad idea after...
This poet, the future martyr Jean-Baptist Hippolyte Marie-Henri Muscari, is visited by the local priest and frankly admits he did not commit any of the crimes. He has done it to gain notcriety, a condition quite unknown in his dismal career. "You do not know how bitter it is to be ignored," he tells the priest...
...light reading, De Gaulle occasionally shows a penchant for the torrid. The pro-Gaullist weekly Le Nouveau Candide raised Parisian eyebrows some time ago by reporting that De Gaulle had read Les Pianos Mecaniques by Henri-Francois Rey. A French bestseller highly praised by the critics, Pianos is a sort of Dolce Vita set on Spain's Costa Brava whose main characters-a schizophrenic journalist, a neglected teen-age boy and girl, a half-wit charwoman-move through their pointless lives battling boredom with promiscuity. Sample passage: "She led him to the bed, still keeping their lips locked. Vincent...
...years have passed, the Class of 1913 has adjusted to the changing world. They seem to have remembered a lecture given by Henri Bergson in the Spring of 1913. Bergson found stability in change itself. Life seen as movement, as a perpetual creation, could "only reassure man of his immortality...
...tomb at Medina. Says Ben Laden: "To me there are only two things in life-work and Islam." ∙Simca, France's third largest automaker (after Renault and Citroën), this week gets a new president: outspoken Georges Héreil, 53. He replaces fiery Henri Pigozzi, who founded Simca in 1934 and ruled it with an iron hand until Chrysler bought control of it this year. The former president of state-owned Sud Aviation, Héreil became a national hero for bringing out the successful Caravelle, but resigned last year after the government sharply trimmed...