Word: napoleonism
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Speaking quickly, Friedman answered these objections by saying that the army behind Napoleon had been conscriptive, as was the one that took control in Argentina recently. Besides, he said, it was the officers, not the men, who presented a threat to civilain control...
...This meeting," said Michigan's George Romney, after a 90-minute lunch with New York's Nelson Rockefeller in a poolside dining room in Puerto Rico, "is purely coincidence." It was about as coincidental as Stanley's confrontation with Livingston, or Wellington's with Napoleon. But that was beside the point...
...that a lover had just arrived. And when Manet combined Giorgione's Arcadian pastoral with postures from a corner of Raphael's Judgment of Paris, and then transformed them into all-too-contemporary figures, one of them in the buff, picnicking on the banks of the Seine, Napoleon III considered the painting, Le Déjeuner sur I'herbe, a threat to public morals. Both it and Olympia today hang in the Louvre...
...promptly cornered the market for crape in Copenhagen. Britain's Baring banking clan made a great leap forward by arranging an $11,250,000 bond issue for Thomas Jefferson's Louisiana Purchase. The Rothschilds of Paris and London grew to prominence by smuggling millions in gold through Napoleon's line to Wellington's forces in Spain. Such are the foundations of the fortunes of the most prosperous and least known of all businessmen, the merchant bankers...
...FROM U.N.C.L.E. (NBC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). Shelley Berman slips in to take on Napoleon and Illya as the mad film director who decides to drop a ten-ton stink bomb on Las Vegas for a super-colossal finish to a film about...