Word: millets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...visit to Cambodia last week, France's Foreign Minister Christian Pineau met with Cambodian newsmen, but refused to talk to foreign correspondents.* As a sop, Pineau set up a conference for U.S., British, Chinese and other foreign newsmen with Quai d'Orsay Asia Bureau Chief Pierre Millet. Simmering, the shunned newsmen waited until Millet entered the door, then stalked out. The only stay-behinds: Anatoly Kurov of Moscow's New Times and Russian Press Attaché Alexander Kongratiev...
Died. Eugene Higgins, 83, American painter and etcher, artistic descendant of France's 19th century Romantic Jean Francois Millet; after long illness; in Manhattan. Missouri-born Gene Higgins put in seven bohemian years in Paris, returned to the U.S. in 1904, spent the rest of his life painting slum figures, tramps, refugees -mostly in and around New York City...
...equally balanced in the north. Who will win in the south is anybody's guess. In the last elections in 1953, many southern tribesmen arrived at the polls under the impression that the government was going to give them a big party. A few arrived drunk on dura (millet) beer, and at one polling station a naked tribesman appeared smeared from head to foot with white wood ash. Asked why, he replied with simple dignity: "Is my clothes." Others refused to vote at all, regarded the whole procedure as a remote, devious and none-too-honest power struggle between...
...acre plantation below Atlanta for a closeup of this week's cover subject, he discovered that his visit was a bit untimely. It was the tail end of the dove season, and Governor Talmadge, an ardent hunter, was eager to get out into the millet fields. Writer Davidson, a city boy from Baltimore, went along. "I guess," he says ruefully, "I'm the only guy who ever went dove hunting in a grey flannel suit." On the second afternoon afield, "Spence" fired and missed one shot at a dove, gave up and contented himself with watching his sharpshooting...
...Barbizon School: 19th century French Landscapists Daubigny, Theodore Rousseau and Millet, long in eclipse because Duveen frowned upon them, are back in favor, have increased as much as ten times in value in the last four years...