Word: rale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...doctor, the patients and the treatment given at the Clinique Générale la Prairie, overlooking Switzerland's Lake Geneva near Montreux, are all remarkable. The physician is Dr. Paul Niehans, '77 (though he looks more like 60), who declares: "I reject nine out of ten would-be patients. I choose persons who represent a certain value to the world by their individual prominence." Among the chosen have been the late Pope Pius XII and the Imam of Yemen (treated in Rome), the late King Ibn Saud, Painter Georges Braque, Somerset Maugham, Gloria Swanson, the King...
...dreamed of the day when he would finish the work of the man he claimed as his grandfather-the legendary Chief Samory who fought so fiercely to drive the French out of West Africa. As head of the powerful (700,000 members) Union Générale des Travailleurs d'Afrique Noire, he ruthlessly slashed his way to power, often quieted his opponents by the simple expedient of burning down their houses. Though he was a constant troublemaker, French officials grudgingly admired him as the brightest of West Africa's rising young black men. Furthermore, since Guinea...
...Paris alone Moch had at his disposal last week 35,000 men drawn from five different units-the Police Judiciare, the Police Générale, the Police Municipale, the Compagnie Républicaine de Securité and the Garde Mobile...
...eyed explanations, this time of grand opera. The singers, he drawls, are high-priced and have "high roofs to their mouths." As for Carmen, she's "looking at this 'Escamilla' like she was stuck on him, and you can see why ". . . because he's a rale spowart. He lives about as far up town...
...corporations that are responsible for the Congo's boom. The corporations operate hand in glove with the government, through a series of interlocking cartels, of which the biggest (60% of all Congo business) is named, with eloquent simplicity. La Société Générale...