Word: michel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...loves orchids and sables, pilots a fast Lancia. She writhes with impatience at official occasions when her position restrains her from doing the twist. Asked her opinion of France's then Premier Michel Debré after the Ivory Coast's Independence Day Ball, Thérèse allowed that "He's nice," but added that "he doesn't cha cha half as well" as another statesman at the party. Frenchmen, who call her the Ivory One and see her as the forerunner of a new, Europe-influenced African woman, delight in her exuberant, ultrafeminine...
...carried out this terrorism and fell into our hands turned out to be pro fessional killers paid for their work." He added witheringly that he did not know of "a single case"-including Salan's-where an S.A.O. member "resisted arrest" when the police closed in. Ex-Premier Michel Debre was ordered to appear as a witness, but in two hours of close crossexamination, Salan's lawyers were unable to extract much that was helpful to their client. And Salan's case was damaged when a defense witness spoke feelingly of the "humanity" of the present S.A.O...
...Michel Block, a diminutive, red-haired pianist who looks like a teen-age Artur Rubinstein, clearly was the choice of a Carnegie Hall audience two years ago, when he competed for the most coveted instrumental prize in the U.S., the Leventritt Award. His performance of Brahms's Concerto No. 2, a work laced with tranquil melodies and fiery passages, brought the audience to its feet for five minutes of applause. But the judges did not give the award to Block or anyone else. Leonard Bernstein, speaking for the judges, pointed out that contestants for the Leventritt do not compete...
...sonata fantasy with a keen intelligence that paid heed not only to detail but also to essential unity. Displaying versatility as well as virtuosity, Block played a cadenza from a Tchaikovsky concerto and a Liszt sonata. Chattering excitedly, the judges reached a verdict in 15 minutes, and this time Michel Block walked off with the prize...
...picked by Charles de Gaulle to break the S.A.O. is General Michel Fourquet, 47, a slight, dark-haired air force officer who was famed under the nom de guerre of Colonel Gori in World War II, when he led the Free French Lorraine bomber group. He has been a staunch Gaullist ever since. Fourquet was an air force brigadier in Algeria a year ago at the time of the Generals Revolt. To make clear his loyalty, he painted a huge cross of Lorraine on his personal aircraft. Shuttling busily between Oran and Algiers in the fortnight since he was appointed...