Word: les
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...able, energetic President Les Faneuf, who started as Bell's special assistant 13 years ago after a rainbow career as everything from commandant of a military academy to political editor of the Buffalo Times, Bell has the kind of imaginative, production-wise executive the company needs in order to grow. But, says Chairman Bell: "No matter where I am, when an airplane flies overhead, I'm going to go outside and look at it. I don't think I'll ever get over that...
...Hope Show (Fri. 8 p.m., NBC). With Les Brown, Margaret Whiting, Jerry Colonna...
...Texas' Favorite Son Lyndon Johnson (see below), Truman greeted 32 dyed-in-the-courthouse Trumanites whom he calls his "flying squad." Some of the high flyers: ex-National Chairmen Frank McKinney and Bill Boyle, California Oilman Ed Pauley, former White House Assistant Donald (Deepfreeze) Dawson, onetime Senate Secretary Les Biffle, ex-White House Secret Service Chief Frank Barry, Sam Rosenman, Dave Noyes, and Irish Tenor Phil Regan. Said Truman: "In five minutes I'm going down and announce for Harriman. I want you fellows to go get this job done. I'm not doing this with...
...Paris, Pablo Picasso in 1907 painted a canvas that was to become historic. Space was carved out in simple planes as if it had been hacked away with an ax. Two figures on the right presented faces as grotesque as African masks. It was the first cubist painting, Les Demoiselles d' Avignon. Almost half a century later, cubism, although short-lived, ranks as one of the most influential movements in art history. To salute its achievements, the Venice Biennale this summer is exhibiting 29 paintings by the purest cubist of them all, Picasso's friend and countryman, Juan...
...really forgotten the 83 dead and 75 injured (some still in the hospital) from last year's 24-hour Grand Prix of Endurance. But the good citizens of Le Mans and the nervous officials of France's Automobile Club de I'Ouest also remembered that les -vingt-quatre heures mean a grand influx of 1) hundreds of thousands of visitors, and 2) coin of the realm. So they worked out a compromise between dollars and danger. They widened the road, beefed up the grandstand, and optimistically wrote some strict rules for cars and drivers...