Word: honorably
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Conspicuously absent was the French ambassador, who obviously reflected the pique of Charles de Gaulle. The banquet was in honor of the 150th anniversary of Waterloo, and le général does not agree with the British that Waterloo is a part of history that needs commemorating. Encouraged by Waterloo's restaurateurs, souvenir hawkers and the local tourist office, the British, West German and Dutch embassies in Belgium had planned a spirited parade and re-enactment of the battle on the original site twelve miles south of Brussels (which was part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands...
...happens also to be De Gaulle's Information Minister Alain Peyrefitte, trumpeted: "Our town has received sovereigns: Philip Augustus, Charles VII in the company of Joan of Arc, Napoleon. But we have never received a President of the Republic. When this President is called General de Gaulle, our honor is redoubled by joy." Without a blink, De Gaulle replied: "Your reception, which moves me and makes me happy, is for me an element of determination in what follows"-meaning, presumably, his decision to run again...
Pusey said his generation--"despite what must surely even then have appeared to many an insufferable, supercilious attitude on our part"--was determined "to serve a deeper and worthier range of values than those which seemed to us to be held popularly in honor in our culture at that time...
Death can give meaning to life by showing what one is willing to die for, the Reverend Dr. Langdon Gilkey '40 explained at a Memorial Service yesterday in honor of the late President John F. Kennedy '40. The service was held in Memorial Church as part of the 25th reunion of the Class...
Senator Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.) will attend a memorial service in honor of his brother, the late President John F. Kennedy '40, at noon today in Memorial Church...