Word: michell
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...meeting in the exchange's dark-paneled board room. President Robert Haack told them they had to come up with some salvage plan or face a major crisis. By process of elimination, Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith, by far the biggest U.S. brokerage, was selected as savior. Clifford Michel, managing partner of Loeb, Rhoades, explains: "One strong, viable firm had to take over, and Merrill Lynch was the only one that had the capital, the muscle and the talent...
...list of those arrested reads like a Who's Who of the Canadian Left. In includes Michel Chartrand, a Quebec leader of the Confederation of National Trade Unions; Pauline Julien, a supporter of the Parti Quebecois and a nationally-famous singer who once refused to perform for Queen Elizabeth; Dr. Henri Bellemarre, director of a Montreal health clinic and a city council candidate of the Front d'Action Politique; to name only a few. Some of the hardest-hit youth groups have been the Vietnamese Patriots, an organization of students from South Vietnam who are sympathetic to the NLF; Cartier...
Alexandre insists that he has carefully and completely verified his book by double-checking each quote with two or more sources. Says Alexandre, who is a distant relative by marriage to Gaullist Defense Minister Michel Debré: "I regretfully had to leave out a great many marvelous bon mots of the general because I wasn't a hundred percent certain of them." He adds that Pompidou, who invited him to the Elysée Palace for an amiable 90-minute talk upon receiving a complimentary copy of the book, "did not deny or question the authenticity...
Like an objets trouves sculptor, Director Claude Chabrol (La Femme Infidele) likes to give commonplaces a classic aspect. Is coincidence a cliche? Very well, then, the father, Charles Thenier (Michel Duchaussoy), learns the identity of the hit-and-run murderer by a convenient accident. Are villains too often betes noiresl The driver is a child-beating, wife-torturing, mistress-abusing salaud. Does the pursuer fall in love with his quarry-as Belmondo did with Deneuve in Mississippi Mermaid! The villain's mistress (Caroline Cellier) is a lodestar of beauty and melancholia. Naturally, Charles is smitten...
...become the refuge of a staggering array of imported talent. Backed by the millions of Philanthropist and sometime Dancer Lucia Chase, Founding Director Richard Pleasant was able to put together an opening season with a roster that read like a Who's Who of the dance world. Michel Fokine, Anton Dolin and Antony Tudor were among the choreographers; Dolin, Dimitri Romanoff, Adolph Bolm and Nina Stroganova were among the principal dancers. This illustrious list of European dance talent was studded with some new American names like Jerome Robbins and Nora Kaye, both members of the first-year corps...