Word: lyons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Lyon was leading Sochaux, 2-1, with three minutes to play in the French soccer championships, when a Lyon player thwunked the ball toward the sidelines. Up it sailed, completely out of the playing area and-zut alors!-landed smack in the presidential box. A pandemonium of plenipotentiaries was averted when Charles de Gaulle, 76, whipped the ball back toward the field, as thousands cheered. "It was good. It was good. I had a fine time," said le grand Charles later, presenting the winner's cup to Lyon and bussing each team captain on both cheeks...
Died. Alfred E. Lyon, 81, longtime head of Philip Morris, Inc. as president (1945-49) and board chairman (1949-57); of cancer; in Stamford, Conn. An ebullient Britisher, Lyon arrived in the U.S. in 1912 and swiftly showed his Yank cousins what the word salesman meant, getting dealers to push Philip Morris by helping dust their shelves, paying college students to pass out free smokes to friends, sweet-talking nightclub ciggie girls into handing customers only Philip Morris when they'd ordered another brand; by 1933, he was the company's vice president for sales and there created...
...honor guard of skiing policemen in the Alps or placing a paternal arm around a hesitant American correspondent, Kosygin, 62, was always a relaxed guest. "If we are all together, there will be no more wars," he shouted to a mob of delighted workers at a factory near Lyon. When a Grenoble judge suggested a cultural exchange of jurists, he joshed: "The happiness of the world will be assured when all judges are unemployed...
...been combed through for the original Empire-style furniture (only De Gaulle's eight-room suite has been done in Louis XVI); provincial and national museums were searched for the original paintings. To weave the 24 Aubusson rugs, carefully kept facsimiles of the original patterns were used; Lyon silk-makers simply followed swatches saved from Napoleon's purchases to reproduce the curtains and upholstery. To bring the Trianon up to date, air conditioning, 350 telephones, 27 bathrooms have been added, along with TV outlets in every room...
...wife pregnant at a time like this?" As the wife, Betty Field runs the risk of menopausal pregnancy, while the other girls crank up enough trauma for several melodramas. Mission Leader Margaret Leighton is a sexually repressed religious nut with lesbian leanings toward Teacher Sue Lyon. Anne Bancroft (in a role vacated by Patricia Neal when she suffered a stroke) plays a tough mission doctor who drinks, smokes, tells truths that hurt, and ultimately saves everyone else by giving herself in concubinage to the lustful Khan (Mike Mazurki). Flora Robson, Anna Lee and Mildred Dunnock view her sacrifice with tolerance...