Word: raoule
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...painting, which had been set apart from the rest, has been taken down. The canvas, which was labeled as "Boating Scene," by Raoul Dufy, "Bateaux sur la Marne," hangs in Brussels...
...Alert. As soon as De Gaulle took power, he restored Ely to his old job, encouraged him in the quiet dispersal of May 13 plotters, including General Raoul Salan, the overall commander in Algeria, who has now been made Commandant of Paris, an honorific post. But the sickness of the French army runs too deep to be cured by reassigning a few senior commanders. The real problem, as De Gaulle sees it, is to give France's young officers a mission more stimulating than colonial suppression...
...unsuccessful with the rebels, De Gaulle at least was able to prevail over his own troublesome generals last week. Sad-eyed General Raoul Salan, No. 1 soldier in Algeria during last summer's settlers' revolt, was made military governor of Paris. Impetuous paratroop Major General Jacques Massu was assigned to a field command entirely divorced from politics...
...sideline to her own profitable biological filmflam, tangle-maned Cinemactress Brigitte Bardot agreed to join Producer Raoul Levy in an undertaking of pith and moment: a series of educational movies designed to help the West "understand" the backward nations of Asia and Africa. To the regret of those piqued by the prospect of Bardot among the Zulus, Filmaker Levy decreed that swivel-hipped Brigitte's contribution would be limited: cash, but no carriage...
...Algeria. After a four-hour Cabinet conference last week, he enplaned for Algeria, his fifth visit to the war-torn territory since taking office. Before leaving, he created the post of Inspector General of National Defense as a niche into which General Raoul Salan, the Algerian commander in chief, could be gracefully moved. Salan's position of power will be diluted into a two-man job. The civilian functions will go to a brilliant civil servant, Paul Delouvrier, 44, the financial head of the European Coal and Steel Community, who recently completed a fact-finding tour of Algeria...