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...Battle of Waterloo and defeat of Napoleon. Britain, other European powers at Congress of Vienna inaugurate a century of overall peace in Western Europe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Britain & Europe: A Chronology | 7/13/1962 | See Source »

...Bruce Co., a leading manufacturer of hardwood products. Ten years later, in 1958, he won control of the company after a go-for-broke battle that established him as one of Wall Street's boy wonders. Eddy, who once showed up at a costume party as Napoleon, assured friends that this was only the beginning. He intended, he said, to use Bruce "as a vehicle to build an empire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: High Finance: Bonaparte's Retreat | 6/22/1962 | See Source »

Thank you for your energetic coverage of my remarks on the Channel Tunnel, at Lowell House yesterday evening. One or two small points: Mathieu Favier was not Napoleon's staff sergeant but an eminent engineer. And today's tube and tunnel people are on speaking terms: beyond the Channel, members of the competing groups, both of which consist of highly reputable firms, frequently engage in successful ventures together...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CHANNEL TUNNEL | 5/25/1962 | See Source »

...said Hoffa had slugged him was Samuel Baron, 59, the 5-ft. 6½-in., 152-lb. field director of the Teamsters' warehouse division. Baron told how he and labor's little Napoleon had been feuding for years. During an argument in the union's Washington headquarters, Baron said, Hoffa suddenly began advancing on him with fists clenched and jaw muscles twitching. "I thought," said Baron, " 'This man is absolutely out of his mind.' Before I know it, he swings and catches me in the left eye and knocks me down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Labor: You Bum! | 5/25/1962 | See Source »

...from Terre Haute, Ind., are off to France with their three typical kids: a sweet plump daughter (Deborah Walley) with steely morals, an engagingly nutty teen-age son (Tommy Kirk), and another boy (Kevin Corcoran), 12, whose freckled wit comes forth in lines like ''I know who Napoleon was. He was the guy that had the same trouble with the English that Custer had with the Indians...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Escargots | 5/25/1962 | See Source »

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