Word: parise
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The Shadow of Violence. Unable to carry the day by parliamentary means, the extremists coldly set out to create an atmosphere of near civil war, reminiscent of the May 1958 uprising that toppled the Fourth Republic. At midweek, Gaullist Lucien Neuwirth, World War II underground fighter, publicly charged that a...
The literary investigator has been around for little more than 100 years. The world's first detective bureau was established in Paris by Eugene null Vidocq in 1817, but it was not until 1841 that Edgar Allan Poe recognized the adventure available to a man who was a detective...
Founded in 1409 by Germans who felt themselves discriminated against at Prague's Charles University, Leipzig became Germany's fourth oldest university (after Heidelberg, Cologne and the now-defunct Erfurt). It survived the struggle between Catholicism and the Reformation (Martin Luther had a memorable disputation there with Johann...
Though he is one of the world's richest men (reputed worth: $1 billion), Jean Paul Getty, 66, lives like a man who does not know where his next penury is coming from. For years he kept a diary in which he jotted down every $2.70 dinner check, including...
Married. Monte Blue, 72, matinee idol of silent films (So This Is Paris, White Shadows of the South Seas), more recently a bit player in movies and TV; and Portrait Painter Betty Munson Mess, 42, widowed mother of four children; both for the third time; in Los Angeles.