Word: jeane
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ominous Sign. "Before, the majority was asked only to ratify; now it is asked to abdicate," said Jean Lecanuet, the head of the Centre Démocrate Party and a leading center politician. He was expressing widespread bitterness at what many non-Gaullists consider a maneuver to counteract the larger-than-ever showing of a.nti-Gaullist sentiment at the polling booths two months ago. An ominous sign came by week's end when one of the general's faithful lieutenants, hulking Edgar Pisani, 48, Minister of Public Works and Housing and a Cabinet member since 1961, resigned...
...works. The Soviets sent a consignment of 13 works rarely seen outside Russia, including four from the Hermitage. Canada helped fill the Italian void with Piero di Cosimo's Vulcan and Aeolus, part of a group of ten pieces that modestly included only two native Canadians, Jean-Paul Riopelle and Paul-Émile Borduas. France obliged with 28 pieces, West Germany with twelve, Japan with ten, Britain with 14, The Netherlands with eight. But some of the most striking contributions came in the smallest shiploads: Tunisia sent a single Roman mosaic floor, Norway two superb canvases by Edvard Munch...
...Expo initiators. From the moment in 1962 when International Exhibitions picked Montreal as the site for '67 (over Moscow, which showed early enthusiasm for an exhibition, then faded from contention), the Canadians began trying to achieve perfection. Principal spark plug was Montreal's dynamic mayor, Jean Drapeau, who buoyantly declared as the first-stage preparations began: "Montreal will not be plagued by lack of imagination...
...seems to agree. "I like going around looking grubby all week long," says one Vassar student. "If women were around all the time," says a Princeton sophomore, "I wouldn't get anything done-I'd be spending just about all my time with them." Barnard College Junior Jean McKenzie, who has taken some courses at nearby Columbia, argues that "in mixed classes you don't really get a mixed point of view; the men talk, and the women listen...
...expert to speed works through customs, assigned four officials and two armed guards to meet each art work. Heated trucks were on stand-by duty 24 hours a day to transport the pieces to the Expo site because, as the Canadian advisory committee's general secretary, Jean Jacques Besner, says, "We could not risk allowing any of these lovely ladies by Delacroix to catch cold...