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...cold-water tap in the back court and one toilet to 16 families, he directs the work of his 25 missionar> women in the Paris factory districts, at Lille, in the port cities Le Havre anc Toulon - as well as a 30-bed rest home for working girls in Mont d'Halluin...
...Adamses were both chilly and superior, they had a great deal to be superior about. Henry's great-grandfather John and his grandfather John Quincy were U.S. Presidents. His father Charles Francis was Minister to the Court of St. James's (1861-68). Though he wrote two masterpieces (Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres, The Education of Henry Adams), Henry Adams mocked himself as a lifelong failure, perhaps because he clung to the Confucian standard that the truly superior man demands more of himself than of others...
producer of electrical controls, was named president and chief executive officer, succeeding G. Stewart Crane, who was elected board chairman. Ryan was born in Anaconda, Mont., worked his way through Cornell University, joined Cutler-Hammer in 1920 as a student engineer...
Died. Louis Lachenal, 35, French mountaineer who with Maurice Herzog in 1950 scaled the 26,493-ft. Himalayan peak, Annapurna, and had to have his toes amputated; after a fall into a 120-ft. crevasse while skiing on Mont Blanc...
...disciple of Adams rather than Gibbon, Medievalist Allan Temko, 31, has put his love and knowledge of the Cathedral of Notre-Dame into an astute and eloquent book that merits shelfroom with Adams' famed Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres. But while Adams sought out only the major thread of medieval unity, Author Temko weaves a tapestry of multiplicity-within-unity. Along with the rising cathedral walls, he traces the rise of the Capetian monarchs to rule Paris, the rise of Paris to rule France, the rise of French Gothic to rule an age. "The Church clothes her stones...