Word: raoul
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...French planned to make a stand near Xiengkhouang, on the vast limestone Plaine des Jarres north of Vientiane, the capital of Laos. Commandeering every available plane, including civil airliners, French General Raoul Salan packed them with troops and flew them into the Plaine des Jarres at the rate of 50 aircraft a day. At Saigon, soldier clerks and interpreters were sent off to fight in Laos. At week's end there was a strong force of Foreign Legion battalions reinforcing the slim Laotian army. But Communist Giap had chosen his time well: within a few weeks the rainy season...
...CAVE AND THE ROCK (276 pp.)-Raoul C. Faure-Morrow...
...proper study of mankind may be man, but writers from Aesop to George Orwell have found animals just as handy. Latest to study mankind by animal roundabout is French-born Novelist Raoul Faure, 43, a resident of California since 1941, who uses lizards for his parable, The Cave and the Rock...
...Saigon, Clark had a three-hour briefing by French Commander Raoul Salan and the Vietnamese chief of staff, Nguyen Van Hinh. Salan told him that all signs point to "a very violent Viet Minh push in Laos soon," the Communists apparently having given up for now their hope of driving the French out of the Hanoi delta. Clark also had a 25-minute chat and a few sips of dry champagne with Emperor Bao Dai. The general made a hit by remarking: "The French here are making really efficient use of arms we deliver to them, and surely...
...Died. Raoul Dufy, 75, one of the grand old men of modern school-of-Paris art, generally ranked among the top half-dozen contemporary French painters; of a heart attack; in the Provençal village of Forcalquier. Partially crippled by arthritis for the past 15 years, Dufy never let pain or gloom color his work. He was famed chiefly for lighthearted, bright-hued racing and yachting scenes...