Word: pyrenean
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Catalonia-born Maestro Casals, who detests Spanish Dictator Francisco Franco so heartily that he will not play in Spain, moved to Puerto Rico in 1956 from his longtime home in self-exile in the French Pyrenean town of Prades. He played last April at the yearly Festival Casals in San Juan, is now in Prades for a reprise of the festivals he used to hold there. *A Reuters correspondent once needled Munoz with the question: "Yes, but when will Puerto Rico get economic freedom from the U.S.?" Shot back Munoz: "About the same time Britain does...
...Positive Results." Two months ago French Socialist Senator Pierre Commin, who had known both Nenni and Saragat and shared a Pyrenean shelter with Nenni during the Nazi occupation, slipped inconspicuously into Rome. He came shortly after Nenni, in a windy polemic, had expressed horror at Moscow's revelations about Stalin, and implied that Khrushchev was not really much better. At the behest of the Socialist International (which is disturbed by the Nenni Socialists' loyalty to Moscow, the only such partnership in Western Europe), suave, strongly anti-Communist Pierre Commin did his best to persuade his two old friends...
...Novelist Bory, an inveterate courtroom spectator, discovered Sylvie soon after the war,when she was haled into court for stealing from her sister-in-law's Paris apartment seven dresses, six blouses, a kilo of sugar, a rabbit-fur vest, 10.000 francs and the stuffed head of a Pyrenean lizard. The judges sentenced her to three months in prison. Novelist Bory then & there determined to make Sylvie the heroine of his next book. The novel Fragile, or the Basket of Eggs* became a bestseller...