Word: henrys
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...organized on a pan-European basis rather than as a congeries of bilateral arrangements. Thus, with the same economics-before-politics approach that was to lead a decade later to the Common Market, the U.S. helped pave the way to European cooperation. As Belgium's Paul Henri Spaak, a founding father of the Common Market, observed at a Brussels anniversary colloquium last week, the U.S. showed "a clearer awareness of what Europe must do to save herself than many Europeans themselves...
...Padlocks. This remarkable museum (see color opposite) houses 12,000 examples of the smithy's cunning, assembled by a minor Parisian nobleman named Henri Le Secq des Tournelles and his father Jerome Le Secq des Tournelles, between 1870 and 1921. Henri gave his collection to the city of Rouen a year before his death when the city fathers offered to house it in the 15th century Church of St. Laurent, which had been secularized and abandoned during the Revolution. To the younger Des Tournelles, iron collecting was a kind of madness. His wife divorced him over it, his fortune...
...Vowels. The bulk of the collection came from the estate of David E. Bright, a Los Angeles industrialist who died in 1965. Bright left the Moore, a Hepworth, another Lipchitz, and two pieces that are far and away the most popular with the students. One is an Henri Laurens reclining nude, called Esquisse d'Automne, whose raised arm and leg form what has already become one of U.C.L.A.'s most popular benches. The other is a clean, shiny pile of aluminum cubes by David Smith entitled Cubi-XX, which not only wins high marks on esthetic grounds...
Traditionalists were planning stopovers at the Musée Ingres in the Gascon town of Montauban, or the Musée Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec in Albi...
...should have been there to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the signing of the Treaty of Rome, which established the Common Market, were absent. France's Jean Monnet, generally acknowledged as the father of the Common Market, did not receive an invitation, and Belgium's Paul-Henri Spaak, who helped draft the treaty, was asked so late that he declined to attend. Instead, the fellow who had all the fun was the one who deserved it least. He was Charles de Gaulle, whose narrow view of Europe has probably done most to harm the Common Market and slow...