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...instructions from Washington, U.S. Ambassador William Attwood broke off the talks. To save the lives of the hostages, the 600 men of Belgium's crack Regiment Para-Commando, led by a stocky, balding Africa hand, Colonel Charles Laurent, 51, would have to live up to their motto: Nee lactantia Nee Metu (Neither Boasting nor Fearing). They...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Africa: The Congo Massacre | 12/4/1964 | See Source »

...moved into as a bride; the French chateau the family visit every year has been theirs for a century. Mrs. de Guigne shops both here and abroad, finds European stores "more fun" but "has a ball" Christmas shopping in Macy's. Dior, Balenciaga and Saint Laurent are her best-loved designers, but her wardrobe is catholic enough to include frontier pants for gardening, simple hostess skirts for dinners with the family...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Customs: The New Elegants | 12/4/1964 | See Source »

...18th century costume ball for 600 given by Countess Sheila de Rochambeau at her chateau outside Paris, the duke in lace jabot and Royal Stewart tartan kilt danced the night away with his duchess, an enchantress ablaze in shimmering red cloak and white feathered wig designed by Yves St. Laurent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jul. 3, 1964 | 7/3/1964 | See Source »

...erupted, insults bounced be tween boxes, and the grandly helmeted Gardes Républicaines clanked into action. One bejeweled matron tore the glasses off a startled young man next to her; another dug her fingernails into her adversary's Balenciaga décolleté. Dress Designer Yves Saint Laurent dealt his neighbor a smart kick in the shins. Monaco's Princess Grace, along with Charlie Chaplin, his wife and his brood, fled for the exits. Aristotle Onassis and Rudolf Bing stayed on to applaud. The tumult raged for a full 30 minutes. Then at 2 a.m., the object...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Opera: Right in the Heart of Paris | 6/26/1964 | See Source »

...President Eisenhower sat in an American military cemetery at St.-Laurent-sur-Mer and, with thousands of white crosses forming a background for his words, talked about his own son, who had graduated from West Point on June 6, 1944, who had not died in the war, and who had given him grandchildren to brighten his life. There was no sentimentality in what he said, merely strong feeling for the dead who had gone to France, as he put it, to gain nothing for themselves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: D-Day, Ike Hour | 6/12/1964 | See Source »

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