Word: nights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...night of St. Jean's Eve, June 23, is the occasion in France of fireworks, bonfires and merrymaking. In bustling Perpignan, a city of 70,000 near the Spanish border, the holiday was celebrated as usual last year. But not everyone was amused. Jean Amiel, 37, who taught English at the local lycée, rushed to quiet his five-year-old daughter when she awoke crying, after youngsters had slipped firecrackers through the letter slot in Amiel's door and they exploded in the hall. He went to the open window, glimpsed five boys and two girls...
...straight Hollywood foreign intrigue: the night scene at Lisbon airport, passengers to Rio de Janeiro fretting at Flight 289's unexplained two-hour delay. A black Mercedes-Benz slips onto the runway. A man scuttles out, clambers into the airliner. Forty-five minutes later, 20 plainclothes policemen dissolve into the darkness, and the great silver plane roars off into the Atlantic midnight...
...last week the country was confronted with the first serious crack in Touré's official family. After a stormy night session, the Council of Ministers announced that Camara Faraban, once a Minister of Education and one of Touré's close friends, had hopped a plane and fled the country. A Paris-trained lawyer who is married to a Frenchwoman, Faraban had no liking for the direction in which the nation was going; but the Council had a classic Marxist explanation for his flight. It was, said the government, tied in with the "whole network of spies...
...British Empire,* star of Covent Garden's Royal Ballet, top ballerina of the Western world-cast a large, limpid brown eye through her camera view finder and pressed the little button. A flashbulb's white glare froze a busy scene against the black of a tropic night on the Gulf of Panama, in the Pacific. Dame Margot's husband Roberto ("Tito") Arias-scion of one of Panama's 20-odd leading families and recently (1955-58) his nation's Ambassador to the Court of St. James's-was happily at work transferring machine guns...
...with the Dance. Beset lately by riotous students and rebellious political opponents, President de la Guardia angrily scooped up Dame Margot and clapped her in jail. "I don't believe in sacred cows," he snapped. Dame Margot of the moon-white skin spent a night in what Panamanians call "the presidential suite" of the jail-and was then deported...