Word: parte
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...elite corps of officials who supervise state spending. It is a position that normally opens the door to the highest echelons of the government and big business. By then, however, Rocard was already an active Socialist. In 1967, having split with Socialist Leader Guy Mollet over his part in placing De Gaulle in power in 1958. Rocard left the government to work as the only full-time employe of the P.S.U.-a distinction he still holds. The party claims only 15,000 followers...
...only two former aides who have seen De Gaulle since his retirement (ex-Defense Minister Pierre Messmer is the other), Couve also had a few things to say publicly about the general's plans. De Gaulle realized, reported Couve, that any political meddling on his part "would make it difficult for those who succeeded him." Accordingly, he has "marked his desire to abstain from any future intervention in French political life." Considering the rebuff that voters had just handed to one of his heirs, that is probably a shrewd judgment on De Gaulle's part...
Opus Dei (the Work of God) might also be called Octopus Dei. Most of its lay members are professional men who pledge to strengthen their Christian lives by improving the world around them. They accomplish this in part by appointing fellow members to key government and commercial posts. Opus Dei adherents are known to control almost all of Spain's banking and a large share of its communications media. "They have the frying pan by the handle and the handle as well," runs a Spanish expression, meaning that members have both power and the will...
...rode a horse to get her man in Auntie Mame, and now the forever irrepressible Rosalind Russell is gallivanting around with a bunch of goats in her latest comedy. The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax. Roz plays the part of a gadabout middle-aged American tourist who leads a double life as a CIA courier carrying secret microfilm. Nabbed by Communist agents on one such mission, she escapes by hiding among a herd of goats. The animals, mostly pets of children in Wyoming where the scene was shot, proved to be unruly hams before the camera. Said the slightly battered actress afterward...
...protests. While some participants in the Oct. 15 Moratorium concentrated on classwork, others planned for the Nov. 15 march on Washington. Even so, a few campuses had troubles that seemed big to them if not to headline writers. Items: >At Vassar College, about 30 black women students seized part of the administration building at 3:20 a.m., locked themselves inside and vowed to "stop the school" until their demands for a black-studies program and separate black housing were met. At week's end the militants, having mobilized half of Vassar's 59 black students, ended their...