Word: plaines
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Habsburg, 46, son of the last Austro-Hungarian monarch (Charles I) and pretender to the nonexistent Austrian throne, admitted that he had given up the good fight for feudalism, hoped to enter his homeland (from which he was barred so long as he wanted to run it) as just plain Dr. Otto Habsburg. The likely new pretender: Otto's younger brother, Archduke Robert, 44, who waits for the impossible, in Paris...
...have Parisians raised such a hullabaloo about a structure. The new $9,010,000 UNESCO Headquarters is a mammoth (by Paris standards) concrete complex that soars up 95 ft. to the top limit allowed by Paris' building code, and spreads over 7½ acres. Where were the plain grey façades, balconies, front-to-sidewalk walls and classical details? Every tradition lover in town was up in arms. To make matters worse, the new structure was directly across from one of the gems of 18th century architecture-the revered Ecole Militaire, facing on the semicircular Place de Fontenoy...
...minutes later the criminal calls the Paris police and challenges Inspector Maigret to catch him. Enter Maigret-sometimes known as "the French Hercule Poirot"-the hero of at least 44 romans policiers by Georges Simenon and generally conceded to be one of the most believable bloodhounds in the literature. Plain, paunchy, respectable, he has the shrewdness as well as the looks of a village grocer; and in this film he is played to the liverish life by Jean Gabin...
Taking a ten-day Thanksgiving holiday in Indian-summery Augusta, Ga., President Eisenhower spent his working hours in the plain little second-floor office set up for him above the golf pro's shop at the Augusta National course. Into the office flowed messages updating the President on the twists and turns of a new crisis: the Russian push to end four-power occupation of Berlin (see FOREIGN NEWS). Whatever the Russian maneuvers meant, there was only one course for the U.S.: to stand steady. Announced President Eisenhower through Press Secretary James Hagerty: "Our firm intentions in West Berlin...
Korin inherited a fortune at 30, made several more from his art, and spent them all before his death at 58. He was a philosopher in love with life, knowing and glorying in its evanescence. Once, to dramatize his feeling, he brought plain rice balls, wrapped in bamboo, to a flower-viewing party. After eating, he unrolled the bamboo wrapping upon the air. It was overlaid with gold leaf and painted by himself with mountains, birds and flowers. Casually, he tossed it into the stream...