Word: napoleons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Napoleon was her great-great-grandfather's godfather, and she hasn't been able to shake the bit ever since. Born in Corsica (just like him), she moved to Paris (just like him) and studied law (mostly written under him). Then in 1956 Micheline Muselli Pozzo di Borgo, now 35, met Alan Jay Lerner, now 45, and was soon wooed and wed. That didn't change things. As his fourth wife, she sailed into their English-style East 71st Street Manhattan manse and transformed the 16 rooms (plus eight water loos) into a plush Napoleonic empire...
...wage increases. In his increasingly frequent TV appearances, he is somewhat pedestrian, but also shows a certain folksy appeal. Watching him on the screen, De Gaulle himself once said appreciatively: "Good. Louis XVIII in modern dress." He was referring to the first Bourbon king restored to the throne after Napoleon's defeat at Waterloo, a man who combined prudence with a ready wit, statecraft with a talent for compromise, and one who came to power after an indubitably great man. France, exhausted by glory and travail, had welcomed him as Louis the Desired...
...general was the most brilliant military commander since Napoleon. But his true greatness lay in his absolute devotion to his country, his refusal to compromise his idealism, his personal integrity. In a word, his greatness was his character...
...Julien Arpels, 79, president of high society's Parisian jewelers Van Cleef & Arpels, Inc., who with his brother Louis took over the business from his father, set up a New York branch in 1940 that outpaced Paris headquarters, expanded to Palm Beach and Caracas marketing such wares as Napoleon's emeralds and a 34.6-carat pink Indian diamond but never, never talking about who bought what or for how much; of a stroke; in Manhattan...
Larger Than Life. One of the most brilliant soldiers of all time, MacArthur stamped out his character and achievement on a full half-century of history. In another age, he might have been an emperor. He envisioned himself as a child of destiny. Like Alexander, Caesar and Napoleon, he conceived and fought monumental battles with huge armies, and like those bygone warriors, he viewed his times and his own acts as decisive in history. His triumphs and his failures often thrust him into whirlwinds of international controversy. He generated stubborn loyalties and intense hatreds. He was a realist...