Word: jeane
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With her wedding only two months away, French Olympic Slalom Champion Christine Goitschel, 21, was treating the slopes gingerly. "I am afraid of falling and getting hurt," she told a teammate at Méribel in the French Alps. Next morning while Christine and her fiancé, Team Trainer Jean Béranger, were studying the course, a vacationing Austrian lost control of her skis at 50 m.p.h. and plowed into the bride-to-be, breaking her right leg and ankle. Ah well, cracked Christine's sister Marielle, herself a slalom champion: "A white plaster cast...
...This book has done more for education and understanding of teachers than any other book," exclaims Jean Thomas, curriculum supervisor in the San Francisco public schools. "As a portrait of teen-age society, it is a classic on the order of Salinger's Catcher in the Rye," says Los Angeles Teacher Olga Richards. "I'm not familiar with the book," huffs H. M. Landrum, superintendent of Houston's Spring Branch School District...
...Central African Republic, beset by everything from Chinese subversion to ministerial embezzlement to a staggering civil service payroll of 50,000 (for a population of 1.4 million), President David Dacko was overthrown by Colonel Jean-Bedel Bokassa, his cousin, who announced that he had acted "to head off two other coups, one against me and one against President Dacko...
...JEAN-PIERRE RAMPAL, 44, the most famous French flutist of the age, this week had a concert date in Paris to play Mozart's Concerto for Flute in D Major. A large man with a suave stage presence, Rampal cannot make the flute sing as Baker can, but he does make it speak with a wonderfully expressive French accent. He is the master showman of his instrument, and he charms an audience as a fakir charms a snake...
...unfortunate that most of the Harvard community won't ever meet Jean Lacouture here. He is not scheduling any lectures and is usually cloistered in his Dunster House suite or Middle Eastern Studies office. But those interested can meet him at his critical best -- secure behind his by-line -- in articles soon to appear in the New Republic and the New York Times Magazine...