Word: ille
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Evanston, Ill...
Roman Style. Despite an intellectual background-his father is president of the French Medical Academy-Debré is a singleminded, fire-eating French nationalist. One of France's loudest opponents of the ill-fated European Defense Community, he has long been vocally suspicious of U.S. policy toward France, still opposes the idea of European political unity inherent in the Common Market. He believes that De Gaulle's mandate was not a right-wing but a nationalist phenomenon. He would like to see De Gaulle function as a kind of Roman-style elected dictator-with-a-time-limit...
...week's end he left off working on his messages, took his only grandson, David, 10, in tow and drove into town. Accompanied by Secret Service guards, Ike and the boy marched into a couple of shops, where the President explained that David was ill-prepared for Gettysburg's below-freezing weather, came out with a couple of brand-new outfits: insulated boots ($14.95), plaid wool shirt ($2.95), corduroy trousers ($4.95), knee-length wool socks ($1.50), single-breasted, charcoal, Ivy League-style suit ($27.50), and grey slacks ($8.95). Ike paid the $60.80 bill (plus sales tax) in crisp...
...pols prevailed. Under their influence, the French electorate rejected a constitution that would have given France the strong executive De Gaulle believed it needed. In an ill-fated attempt to create national unity, De Gaulle gave the Communists five Cabinet posts, only to have them revile him because he refused them the crucial Ministries of War, Foreign Affairs and Interior. Finally, one cold day in January 1946, the general called in his Cabinet and announced: "You espoused the quarrels of your various parties. It is not this way that I understand things ... I have therefore resolved to abandon office...
...five men who publish the monthly Menard (Ill.) Time are serving a total of 130 years for felonies ranging from statutory rape to murder. Each workday, in the interests of some 2,350 convict readers, they troop in prison dungarees to the Menard Time* office to practice journalism behind the walls of the Menard branch of the Illinois State Penitentiary. Menard's Editor David R. Saunders has had job offers from several newspapers and a wire service. But it will be a while before he goes to press for pay: he has 32 years yet to serve...