Word: jeane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Shibley Jean Talamas, 29, who was born in Haiti to wealthy, Syrian-descended parents with U.S. citizenship, was a bear-size (6 ft. 6 in., more than 300 Ibs.) playboy who enacted a majestic Bacchus at carnival time, managed a leading soccer team and manufactured textiles. He had been educated at Virginia's Hargrave Military Academy and the University of Texas, and was married to an Ashtabula, Ohio girl. In 24 hours last week, U.S. Citizen Talamas ran into a terrible coincidence that cost him his life and Haiti much U.S. good will...
Three years ago Montreal's ex-Mayor Camillien Houde, who had just retired after running the city with all the uproar, fun and profit of a bingo game, was asked by a local matron what he thought of the new mayor, a prim, plain lawyer named Jean Drapeau. Replied Houde: "He is a little man, madame, a little man." But last week, with a new election three weeks off, Politician Houde had changed his mind. Just as a boom got rolling to return him as mayor of Canada's biggest city (and the second largest French-speaking city...
...office Drapeau lent the city a new tone. By revamping the city's tax-assessment system, resourcefully tackling traffic congestion, establishing an arts council, tireless Jean Drapeau has convinced Montrealers that the mayor can be more than a circus ringmaster. And although glasses still clink in nightclubs until dawn, big-scale vice has been run out of business-with no evident harm to Montreal's lusty tourist trade or Drapeau's popularity. Says he: "Here in Montreal people used to think that prostitution was necessary to keep down the crime of rape. We found out that...
...chisme Progressif avoids complex dogma, presents simple concepts first, seeks to initiate more involved theology gradually. Many points are emphasized with cartoons, e.g., Jean, who has ignored the instructions of the auto dealer, has just overturned his car, while Jacques, who paid attention, is pictured put-putting happily by on his motor bike. Moral by analogy: "I have faith in God; I ought to obey...
...clock one morning last week, Yacef's baraka ran out. Acting on an informer's tip, green-bereted paratroopers of the Foreign Legion rushed into the Casbah and smashed in the door of No. 3 Rue Caton. As Paratrooper Lieut. Colonel Jean Pierre and one of his sergeants broke in, Yacef and his girl friend Zohra scrambled through a trapdoor into a secret chamber above the stairwell of the house. Before he slammed the trapdoor shut, Yacef cut loose with a burst of machine-gun fire, then tossed down a hand grenade that went off in the paratroopers...