Word: mets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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These embittered opinions last week seemed long ago and far away. Mellowed by events, tall, uniformed General Charles de Gaulle, 67, and aging Sir Winston Churchill, 83, met for the first time in 14 years in the gardens of the Hotel Matignon, the Paris office-residence of the Premiers of France. The grey, windswept day, with leaves blowing across the garden, had an autumnal look, as did the two figures involved-one in topcoat and scarf, leaning heavily on a stick, and the other still erect but no longer trim. As some 60 top-ranking British and French officers...
...more than 72 hours. Recently the government of Hendrik Verwoerd, going beyond the black regimentation of his predecessors, decided to enforce more strictly the rule that all South African women over 16 should carry passes. All told, 900,000 "reference books" had been issued, and though the campaign met with protests and occasional violence, it was not until the government tried to extend its policy last month to the big city of Johannesburg, that it found it had seriously underestimated the power of the women. The black women of Johannesburg adopted an unusual strategy: not to avoid arrest...
...exchange took place in Italian between Maria Meneghini Callas and Tenor Jon Vickers in a new production of Medea (see below). But it also summed up Maria Callas' offstage exchange with a far more improbable Jason-the Metropolitan Opera's Rudolf Bing, who last week stunned the Met's public by casting Maria Callas out of his golden opera house...
...film movie critics have transformed themselves into a group dispensary of tasteless, colorless and odorless critical treacle, ignored on a wholesale basis by the moviegoer, sampled only by the movie industry itself, which is merely vigilant for any sign of recalcitrant tartness. The New York Film Critics met recently to wring hands over the cases of Zinsser and Gilbert, deplored industry pressure for two hours, and adjourned. "Nothing was done by the critics," wrote New York Post Critic Archer Winsten with some bitterness, "and nothing will be done...
...cardinals from both camps convened on their own (hence invalidly) in 1409, "deposed" both Popes and elected a third, who died within a year, was succeeded by Balthazar Cardinal Cossa, who called himself John XXIII. Neither "deposed" Pope recognized the new one. Four years later, the Council of Constance met, made itself valid by having Urban's successor, Gregory XII, convene it and immediately abdicate. Thereupon the council deposed the other two Popes and started things off on the right foot again with Martin...