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...This time, however, the attacking army was not only German but also Swiss, Belgian, Italian, Spanish, British and mostly French-perhaps 30,000 demonstrators in all. They were protesting against "Super Phénix," France's giant Plutonium breeder reactor, under construction near Malville, 28 miles east of Lyon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Clash At Super Ph | 8/15/1977 | See Source »

...ARTIFICE. Some of the new clothes looked as though they had come from a studio wardrobe, and their presentation was also theatrical. Pierre Cardin flew a group of journalists to Lyon, the center of the silk industry, where they viewed his new models at the modern Lyon-Satolas airport-an appropriate setting, since Cardin was one of the creators of the 1960s futuristic look. His collection this year included accordion-pleated capes, wasp-waisted gowns and bright, tiered skirts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Long-Ago and Far-Away Romance | 8/8/1977 | See Source »

Henry Nove-Josserana Lyon, France...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 7, 1977 | 2/7/1977 | See Source »

...months before The Crucible opened, both Florence Stevenson's Child's Play and Louis O. Coxe's The Witch-finders were staged in the Midwest. Still earlier, in May of 1952, the Poets' Theatre produced at Harvard the first version of The Gospel Witch, a verse treatment by young Lyon Phelps '51, which shares eight characters with Miller's play. Witches were clearly in the air--in one sense...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: 'The Crucible'--Witch-Hunts Then and Now | 7/6/1976 | See Source »

...steadfastly remained mute, the only way under the law that he could insure his property would go to his sons. To force a plea out of him, heavy stones were piled on his chest. Saying only, "More weight," he died. (Corey and his brave death figure more prominently in Lyon Phelps' aforementioned dramatization...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: 'The Crucible'--Witch-Hunts Then and Now | 7/6/1976 | See Source »

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