Word: micheles
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When the deadline passed, U.N. Congo Chief Sture Linner reported: "At least 104 foreign personnel failed to give any account of themselves." O'Brien de manded compliance. In answer, Katanga's white-led political police arrested O'Brien's deputy, Michel Tombelaine. Reported Linner, with undisguised frustration: "This was the culmination of a long series of wrongful acts by these officers, including the organization of attacks on the United Nations, repeated threats, and incitements to violence." O'Brien issued an ultimatum: remove all remaining white officers, or else. When Tshombe flatly refused, U.N. troops went...
Died. Brigadier Joseph Michel, 44, Sandhurst-trained Ghanaian army officer who. the day before his death, had been named chief of staff of U.N. forces in the Congo: of injuries following a plane crash; in Kintampo, Ghana...
...major Administration post. O'Brien promised to look into the matter for them, the bloc voted right, and a few weeks later the White House was pleased to announce the appointment of Salvatore Bontempo as head of the State Department's consular service. For good measure, Michel Cieplinski was named as Bontempo's assistant, mollifying an eleven-member Polish-American group in the House...
...million more expected this year, Wall Street investors last week tried to oust Fox's President Spyros P. Skouras, 68. But the wily movie magnate outfoxed his foes with a "compromise'' settlement that put in, as executive committee chairman, Skouras' "very, very close associate" William Michel. Fingering a chain of yellow amber beads (which he uses to allay his craving for cigars), Skouras attributed his company's losses to "bad breaks," among them Elizabeth Taylor's illness, which halted the filming of Cleopatra. Moaned one investor: "We needed surgery, and we've gotten...
...been inaugurated by Dior's A-shape; this year the alphabet has yielded a softer, swirlier letter as a theme-S. At the end of a week studded with the usual fashion-show crises (Red Cross ambulances stood by for crush victims, models fainted as Zippers caught, Designer Michel Goma was rushed to the hospital with appendicitis), the trend was clear: this year's styles-though not yet ready to hug-make tentative overtures toward the female figure...