Word: lyons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. The Hon. Sir David Bowes-Lyon, 59, look-alike younger brother of Britain's Queen Mother Elizabeth, a Scottish-descended* investment banker who ran Britain's World War II Political Warfare Mission to the U.S.; of a heart attack; at Birkhall, Scotland...
...launched by one of Paris' most respected gynecologists. Dr. Marie-Andrée Lagroua Weill-Halle, the belated revolution was stirring French doctors to action and open flouting of the 1920 law. Dr. Lagroua Weill-Halle's own conversion was typical. The daughter of a Roman Catholic Lyon family, she was shocked when she made her first acquaintance with le planning through a visit to a Planned Parenthood Federation clinic in Manhattan: "The desire to avoid motherhood seemed to me monstrous." But practicing in Paris, she met thousands of women who were afraid to have another child because...
...plan. Funds are supplied almost entirely by some 900 West Berliners, who give $4,250 a month for operational expenses, including an allowance of 50? a day for the volunteers. More money will soon be needed for a number of ambitious projects, including a Jewish community center in Lyon, a youth center in Rotterdam and work in three Israeli kibbutzim. And plans were being polished in Berlin last week to send twelve young men (average age: 20) to rebuild into a youth center the sacristy of England's famed Luftwaffe-blasted Coventry Cathedral...
...boxwood block, separately engraving its various pieces-anywhere from 6 to 36-reassembling them and electrotyping a metal printing plate, took at least two weeks and usually more. By the time Leslie's received Henri Lovie's moving depiction of the death of Brigadier General Nathaniel S. Lyon, its home artists had already twice rendered the general's death; Lovie's sketch was edited to make quite a different point...
Peaceful Yes. His attitude-somewhere between that of a benevolent emperor and a stern schoolteacher-was justified by the results. Fully 75% of French voters said yes to De Gaulle, and he carried every single department in France. Jacques Soustelle, his most important and gifted antagonist, campaigned fiercely in Lyon, where he was elected Deputy in 1958, and lost. "Let us recognize the brutal fact," said Soustelle when the results were in. "Algeria must interpret the vote as a gesture of abandonment...