Word: jeane
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...blamed France's economic troubles on the European Community, which is "too easily manipulated by our German competitors−I say competitors, not partners." The Communists have been even more demagogic. "What the Germans couldn't get in 1914 and 1939 they are conquering today," complained Jean Gillet, a member of the Communist-dominated CGT union...
...Jean Monnet: 1888-1979 he sovereign nations of the past can no longer solve the problems of the present. They cannot ensure their own progress or control their own future. And the European Community itself is only a stage on the way to the organized world of tomorrow...
...wrote Jean Monnet, the "Father of the European Community" and the universally respected model of today's supranational civil servant. When Monnet died at the age of 90 last week, in his modest country home near Paris, his dream of a United States of Europe, linked both politically and economically, remained unfinished. But Monnet was a patient man. "I'm not an optimist," he once said, "I am simply persistent," and thus he may have been pleased by the progress that had been made toward his overriding vision. Last week, at a summit meeting in Paris, leaders...
...Cologne, West Germany. Invited at age 18 to join the Ballets Russes by Impresario Serge Diaghilev, who admired "his deep burning eyes in a face already touched by melancholy," the Moscow-born Massine scored his first great success in 1917, when he collaborated with Artist Pablo Picasso, Writer Jean Cocteau and Composer Erik Satie to produce Parade, thus turning the ballet world toward modernism. The wiry dancer, a naturalized U.S. citizen, was probably best known to the general public for his film performances in The Red Shoes and Tales of Hoffman...
...DIED. Jean Villot, 73, French Roman Catholic Cardinal and for the past ten years the Vatican's secretary of state, traditionally the second most powerful prelate in the church; of bronchial pneumonia...