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...carbine with a telescopic sight to kill De Gaulle while he was inspecting the honor guard in the cobbled Ecole Militaire courtyard. Two other officers were also in custody, but the oddest of the suspects was the alleged ringleader, Mme. Paule Rousselot de Liffiac, 55, a pipe-smoking, low-salaried English translator at the school, the mother of six children, who was picked up at her 15-room 18th century château in a town south of Lyon. The Ecole Militaire, where Napoleon learned to soldier, is the top academy for the French military, and a hotbed of anti...
...Labor Party last week chose a new leader to carry its banner against the Tories in Britain's coming general election. The winner: Harold Wilson, 46, a pipe-smoking intellectual with a phenomenal memory, a following of mixed admirers, and a love of political combat...
...voting for portly, pipe-puffing Wilson, a onetime Oxford don who draws most of his support from the left and was one of Hugh Gaitskell's archrivals, Labor M.P.s apparently had in mind not his ruthless opportunism but the fact that he, like Gaitskell, is a middle-class intellectual. By contrast with earthy George Brown, a plain-spoken lorry driver's son, many Laborites believe that Harold Wilson will have more appeal for middle-class voters, who have become increasingly disenchanted with Prime Minister Harold Macmillan. An effective president of the Board of Trade for 3½ years...
...Little Harold." Labor's left wing supports Harold Wilson, 46, an adroit, urbane debater and topnotch intellect who was an Oxford economics don at 21. As President of the Board of Trade in Clem ent Attlee's Cabinet, pipe-puffing Yorkshireman Wilson has had more administrative experience than any of his rivals, is the party's foreign policy specialist. Despite his brilliance and charm, Wilson's foes, who call him "Little Harold," regard him as a slippery opportunist who backs only winning causes-though he miscalculated in 1960 when he attempted to grab the leadership while...
...type to make a habit of long-distance diagnosis. But of Bob's letter he said: "It was a perfect case history, and a clear message to me." That message was "carbon monoxide poisoning." And 90 miles away, firemen who found a blocked furnace ventilator pipe that was forcing carbon monoxide back into the cottage made the final confirmation of Dr. Cook's diagnosis...