Word: mediterraneans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. General Rene Cogny, 64, commander of French troops in North Viet Nam during the fall of Dienbienphu in 1954; in the crash of an Air France Caravelle jetliner that took 94 other lives; in the Mediterranean, near Nice. Known to his men as Le General Vitesse (General Hurry-Up), Cogny protested angrily when superiors ordered him to hold a defensive position at Dienbienphu, which fell to the Communists after an eight-week siege. Equally bitter was the political settlement reached at the Geneva Conference shortly thereafter. Said the general: "Too many deaths, too many deaths for nothing...
...main problem was to combine glass, which frames views of the Kreeger's 5½-acre lot, with hanging room for their art. To solve their problem, Johnson chose a style that he terms "Mediterranean modern," designed the house as a series of modular galleries topped with lifted cross-vaults. These give it a vague resemblance to Istanbul's domed Hagia Sophia, which has led some Washington wags to dub it "Bauhaus Byzantine...
...Mediterranean Style. Even beyond the usual hysterical interest attracted by any new Beatles record, the appearance of Revolution and Hey Jude is special. It is part of the first package of releases by the Beatles' new company, Apple Corps Ltd. The firm was organized earlier this year to coordinate the group's multiplying business enterprises, which include films, television, music publishing and electronics. The specific mission assigned to the Apple disk label was not only to record the Beatles, but also to enable them to promote new talent. As John Lennon put it last spring, "We want...
...along with their own last week, the Beatles make a modest start toward that goal. One, produced by Paul McCartney, introduces 18-year-old Mary Hopkin, a Welsh folk singer with a high, clear soprano reminiscent of Folk Singer Joan Baez. Singing Those Were the Days, a sort of Mediterranean-style café song, she gives a gently swaying, lyrical performance. Another record, produced by George Harrison, offers Liverpool Rock Singer Jackie Lomax, 24, in a driving, bluesy delivery of a Harrison song, Sour Milk Sea. Then there is the 113-year-old Black Dyke Mills Band from the Yorkshire...
...forgave the organization a $13 million debt that he says it owed him for services rendered-an understandable act of charity considering that he has boasted to friends of having $7,000,000 stashed away in two numbered Swiss bank accounts. And he continued to float about the Mediterranean on his yacht, a 3,300-ton former channel steamer that is manned by some 200 blue-uniformed crewmen and students...