Word: ral
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...last spring, when he even advised De Gaulle not to follow through on his promise of a personal referendum. Instead, Pompidou cannily proposed the alternative of parliamentary elections, on which only Pompidou's?not the general's?prestige would be staked. "If you lose the referendum, Mon Général, the regime is lost," said Pompidou. "If I lose the elections, I will be the only one to lose them." Reportedly, a suspicious De Gaulle replied: "And what...
Snowmobiling is snowballing. In the past five years, sales of the low-slung motor-driven ski scooters (price range: $595 to $1,500) have leaped from 15,000 to 225,000 annually. This season, more than 1,000 snowmobile races and ral lies are being held in the northern U.S., featuring such varied events as the sla lom, jumping and drag racing. Though many of the competitions like to bill themselves as the "largest," "richest," "most unique" or simply "world's foremost," Alaska's annual Midnight Sun 600 Snowmobile Race is indisputably the world's coldest...
...concessions that they wanted. Pompidou threatened to resign if De Gaulle did that, and pressed him instead to dissolve the National Assembly and call new elections. Many politicians believed that Pompidou also warned that if France did not heed De Gaulle's appeal for order, "Mon Genéral,-you must leave...
...biography to be published in France next month and in the U.S. in the fall, Charles de Gaulle, quoted in an unguarded moment, delivers his private opinion of Lyndon Johnson. The book, Le Général, was written by Pierre Galante, an editor of Paris-Match (and the husband of Olivia de Havilland), who extensively interviewed De Gaulle's relatives and government acquaintances. De Gaulle on Johnson...
...hero, as was Ike when he returned from Europe in 1945. Yet from the moment when House Doorkeeper William ("Fishbait") Miller swept down the center aisle of the packed chamber last week and announced, in his resonant Southern accent, "Mistah Speak-ah, Gen'ral William C. Westmoreland," the tall, tanned soldier held Congress in thrall...