Word: mies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...newly planted South Lawn to hear the Central Kentucky Youth Symphony Orchestra performing at one of Jackie's cultural programs. At another garden party for 100 foreign Fulbright scholars, the President was upstaged by a 17-month-old Arab girl, who cavorted around him and cried "Mommie, mom-mie," while Kennedy saluted "some of the brightest minds from abroad." Said the President, manfully ignoring the fact that some of his new flower beds had taken a beating from the week's crowds: "This garden, like other things around Washington, is new and growing and blossoming...
Died. Henry Bordeaux, 93, oldest of the 39 immortals in the Académie Française, author of more than 100 books, one of France's most popular novelists at the turn of the century, when his novels, such as La Robe de Laine, caught the mood of the late Victorian era, extolling the ideals of family life, religious piety and love of one's country; in Paris...
...Immortals of the sedate Académie Française recently received an intriguing parcel from an unknown donor. In the mail came the most literary pornographic novel since the Marquis de Sade. Called L'Histoire d'O, it once moved Catholic Paul Claudel to remark, "All priests should read it so they may have an exact sense of sin." The parcel was intended to prejudice academicians against electing the man who had written the book's preface. Jean Paulhan, 78, and who is widely suspected of having written the novel himself under a pseudonym. A grand...