Word: iles
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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What happens to Channing should not befall any hard-working superstar. At the play's beginning, she is a rich widow mourning her husband by wearing every awful gem he ever gave her. About to board the Ile de France, she recalls an earlier, gayer voyage. The rest of the evening flashes back to Gentlemen...
These days, a tourist might recognize Melvin Laird talking on a bench with Kentucky's former Senator John Sherman Cooper, or former White House Chief of Staff H.R. Haldeman striding briskly between points of ex ile. Here and there, among the office workers brown-bagging lunch on the grass, may be seen other men talking White quietly in House the gates - sunshine because only beyond there the could they be sure they were speaking only to each other. Or so they may think...
...whose family coat of arms portrays-naturally-a lion, founded a wild-game park three years ago. On the spacious grounds around his family's Renaissance Château de Thoiry, he started out with a score of lions. Obviously French food and the sweeping savannas of the Ile-de-France region agreed with the animals. They proliferated so rapidly that the desperate viscount is now trying to export his surplus. To where? Where else? Africa...
...special service that one guest called "visually the most beautiful Christmas Eve Mass I've ever been to." With permission from France's Minister of Culture, U.S. Ambassador Sargent Shriver invited friends, fellow diplomats and their families to worship in the tiny national museum on Paris' Ile de la Cité. The celebrants wore vestments designed by Matisse, and the Met's Anna Moffo sang sacred music at what may well have been the first midnight Mass at Sainte-Chapelle since the time of Louis XIV. It was celebrated in relative comfort. Leaving no detail...