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...with the Arabs. So does West Germany. Charles de Gaulle refused to sign the proposed declaration or even acknowledge the validity of the 1950 Tripartite Declaration by which France, Britain and the U.S. pledged to protect Israel's territorial integrity. Any nation resorting to arms, he declared with Olympian loftiness, would have "neither the approval nor support" of France-though, considering his country's impotence in the situation, neither would be worth much...
...solemn antiquity worship, and to satirize the manners and morals of the Second Empire under Napoleon III. His fiddle-playing Orpheus is glad to be rid of the unfaithful Eurydice until a character called Public Opinion forces him to complain to Jupiter. The gods, bored with ambrosia and the Olympian idyl, squabble rebelliously; and Jupiter, when he descends to the underworld to investigate Orpheus' complaint, is so taken with Eurydice that he arranges the plot in order to take her away from Orpheus...
Harry Jergesen, who started fencing at Harvard and, as a sophomore, twice defeated Olympian and NCAA champion Paul Petsy, has been elected captain of the 1967-68 varsity fencing team...
Hypnotic & Glossy. Just as Charles W. ruled over the family, so the show is dominated by the near-Olympian progenitor who completed more than 1,000 pictures and sired 17 offspring by three successive wives (he died at 85, busy courting a fourth). A man of plain-spun charm, he had fought and wintered at Valley Forge, painted George and Martha Washington, Hamilton, Franklin, Lafayette and many of the other great men of the day in a style renowned for its affable simplicity. Like his lifelong friend Thomas Jefferson, he was an enthusiastic naturalist and inventor, experimented with everything from...
Chris Pardee, who high-jumped for Harvard last year and who now attends Oxford, placed third in the jump behind Olympian John Thomas and high-schooler Stanley Albright. The winning height was 7 ft. Pardee, now on vacation, cleared...