Word: mistral
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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ALGERIA Successful Mission Shortly after 11 o'clock one morning last week, a gull-white Caravelle jet airliner accompanied by eight Mistral fighters in V formation came streaking in from the Mediterranean over the North African coast. A few minutes later at Maison-Blanche airport. Charles de Gaulle, clad in the undecorated suntan uniform of a brigadier general, stepped down onto the soil of Algeria-the first French Premier to show his face there since an Algiers mob greeted Socialist Guy Mollet with a shower of rotten tomatoes in February...
Died. Gabriela Mistral (real name: Lucila Godoy Alcayaga), 67, tall, straight-haired Chilean poet and schoolteacher who won adulation throughout Latin America for her Sonnets of Death (1914), written after the suicide of a lover, was awarded the permanent post of roving consul (her assignment: to live where she pleased) by the grateful Chilean government, in 1945 received the Nobel Prize for poetry; of cancer; in Hempstead...
...comparison of Moscow's Van Goghs (MGM received transparencies of them too late to include them in the film) makes clear, as the story does not, that Van Gogh's epilepsy halted his painting, but does not explain it. The Grape Harvest, painted in the buffeting mistral outside Aries before Van Gogh's first attack, is faithful to the glowing description he wrote his brother of a "red vineyard, all red like red wine. In the distance it turned to yellow, and then a green sky with the sun, the earth after the rain violet, sparkling yellow...
Haring's award is one made annually by the Academy of American Franciscan History in memory of Fr. Junipero Serra, a missionary to southern California. Past recipients of the award are Sumner Wells, ex-United States Under-Secretary of State, and Gabriela Mistral, the Chilean poet...
...race, was busily building the last of his challengers, Shamrock V. A new racing class, the 30-ft. Atlantic Class sloop, was hot off the drafting board of famed Designer W. Starling Burgess (Shields was to win the national Atlantic championship two years later). In the 40 ft. Mistral, Corny raced among the billowing sails of the New York Yacht Club cruise...