Word: latelies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...given a say in drafting the participation bill and a free hand in running the National Assembly. Beyond that, all he wanted was a little well-earned rest -perhaps a two-week vacation. Tricot rang back after noon with a message from De Gaulle. It was too late; the general had already made up his mind. In fact, he had called in Couve after dinner the night before to tell him to form a government...
...late Monday, rumors of Pompidou's dismissal were racing about Paris, but the Elysée remained noncommittal. Finally, on Tuesday, Pompidou was summoned to the palace to receive the word in person from De Gaulle, and their exchange of correspondence was released to the press. Then Pompidou went to a caucus of the newly elected Gaullist Deputies in the National Assembly. Most of them were angry that a vote getter as effective as Pompidou had been sidetracked in favor of a man who is anything but a crowd pleaser. But Pompidou, though he was bitterly hurt...
...assurance that he would. In fact, the one thing that people close to Pompidou deduced from the situation was that De Gaulle in tended to remain around a while longer. There is now speculation in Paris that De Gaulle's wife Yvonne insists that he must step down late next year, when he will be 79. That would leave three years of his present seven-year term unexpired...
Elders & Bearskins. Originally separate regiments, the Argylls and Sutherland Highlanders were both formed in the late 1700s, when the Crown was anxious to quell the defiant mood of Scotland that had resulted in the Jacobite rebellion. Their language and manner, from the beginning, made them a strange breed among Britain's tough foot soldiers. On their first foreign tour, at the Cape of Good Hope, the Sutherland regiment showed up with three elders of the kirk in their ranks, piously sent part of their pay home to the missionary society...
Another thing: this crowd's seen zillions of war movies, some of them many times on late night television and in the contiguous theatres on Washington St. They know the war movie formula. And when director John Wayne departs from it to throw in a little (or, more frequently, a lot of) anti-liberal propoganda, the war movie vets know they're getting a sermon. Not that they don't like the message; they probably groove on it a whole...