Word: pompons
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...acting like an intriguing Medici. Pompidou, who made the announcement over drinks with newsmen at the French embassy, insisted that he had spoken only out of gallantry. A lady had asked the question, he said; had a man asked, he would have been more brusque. Returning to Paris, Pompon, as Frenchmen have nicknamed him, toned down his Roman remarks. "Thank heavens," he told newsmen, "General de Gaulle is thoroughly in the saddle...
...Lille the benign Pompon finally took charge. He urged the U.N.R. to open itself up to all those "who are in agreement with us about the direction of the future." The delegates, many of them owing their jobs and appointments to Pompidou decided little beyond changing the U.N.R.'s name to the "Union of Democrats for the Fifth Republic" (De Gaulle had forbidden the use of his name "even in adjectival form" in any party title). As to the direction of the future, Pompidou and the other speakers left that vague, no doubt for fear of infringing...
...onetime professor of literature and investment banker whom De Gaulle thrust untutored into French politics as his premier in 1962. The only man in his Cabinet that the general deigns to call by his first name (everyone else, both friend and foe, refers to the premier as "Pompon"), the bushy-browed Pompidou has long been De Gaulle's unspoken choice to succeed him. De Gaulle would never, of course, detract from his own image as France's absolute ruler by openly endorsing Pompidou. But in his press conference he came as close as he ever has to anointing...
...roll of muffled drums, 100 sailors of the Royal Hellenic Navy towed the caisson carrying the coffin of King Paul of the Hellenes through the streets of Athens. Flanking the coffin were 20 evzones in tasseled red hats, pleated kilts and pompon shoes, their weapons carried upside down in mourning. Aides carried Paul's decorations on red velvet cushions, and after the carriage came the King's riderless white horse...
...also provides his generals with ladies. In one collage, Dressed Woman, a star-shaped collar of jet beads crowns a pompon fringe gathered around a rosette that might represent a nose. Look into My Eyes is a funny felt face with cut-glass-mirror eyes, a rose for a nose...