Word: jeane
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...began slowly one morning last week when vainglorious Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba went to the Leopold II Barracks outside Léopoldville to deliver one of his grandiose speeches. Mostly Bangala tribesmen, the soldiers were hostile because their tribal leader, Jean Bolikango, had been denied a Cabinet post. They shouted him down and chased him back to the city. Startled Europeans found the streets suddenly filled with disheveled troops, their sports shirts sticking out of their unbuttoned tunics. Carrying clubs and iron bars and swinging their belts like whips, the mutineers shouted alternately "Kill Lumumba" and "Kill all whites." They...
...Kennedy for his wife's services as a campaigner. "But she's a grandmother," he protested. "Yes, but she's beautiful, and she's the mother of a Congressman, and we need her," was the reply. Rose went to work, with Eunice, Pat and Jean, at the famous Boston tea parties, and the Clan Kennedy smashed Cabot Lodge and turned back the Eisenhower riptide by 70,000 votes. ("It was those damned tea parties," Lodge said afterward...
...prototype of the penny-pinching near billionaire is U.S. Oilman Jean Paul Getty, 67, who last year plunked down a million more or less, for Sutton Place, the Surrey domain of Britain's Duke of Sutherland, partly to save money on his hotel bills in London and Paris. Last week, as if in final proof of his penny wisdom. Expatriate Getty went pound-foolish with a vengeance. To Sutton Place he invited some 80 gilded guests for dinner on gold plate, then opened the estate to more than a thousand other assorted peers, nobles, high officials...
...Tripartite Man. Benedictine Yogi Dechanet has no use for such Western Orientalists as Jean Herbert, who has written: "Nothing is simpler than to supply Western Christian names in place of Hindu in the treatises on yoga technique." Dechanet is also on guard against the danger that the practice of yoga turns him toward "the Self, the It, the Absolute, the Wholly-One, the vague 'Ungraspable' of Hindu mystics" instead of toward "the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, the living God, my Creator and Father." What Dechanet set out to do when he first began to practice yoga...
French Artist Jean Lurçat, 68, has more reason than most men to remember the Nazis, but he does not remember them simply because they burned his studio or because he lost his paratrooper son in action. The invaders had an insatiable greed for French tapestries, and when they had exhausted the reserves of traditional hangings in the ancient tapestry-weaving center of Aubusson, 235 miles south of Paris, the local weavers turned for new designs to a small group of former Paris artists turned Resistance fighters who were hiding in the town. Under the Nazis' noses...