Word: raymonde
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Gaullist who stuck by the General during the desert years from 1953 to 1958, when he completely withdrew from politics. A machine gun insignia marks those who fought in the Resistance. Any kind of affiliation with De Gaulle, past or present, qualifies a man for the Directory. Thus Raymond Aron, now an opponent of De Gaulle, is listed along with heir-apparent Michele Debre and obscure hatchetmen like Jean-Baptiste Biaggi. "Minister of the word" Andre Malraux ("an elderly uncle whose whims are tolerated with amused indulgence") appears along with plotters, soldiers, relatives and arch-traitor Jacques Soustelle...
...McKeon summoned six other Democratic state officials to a meeting in the manager's suite of Albany's DeWitt Clinton Hotel. Present besides McKeon were Nassau County Leader John English; Schenectady County Leader George Palmer; Joseph Crangle, subbing for Erie County Boss Peter J. Crotty; J. Raymond Jones, Negro chief of New York City's Tammany Hall; Queen's County Assemblyman Moses Weinstein, and New York City Election Commissioner Maurice J. O'Rourke...
...admitted that his knowledge of the double-lulu offer was secondhand, but said, "I verified the facts to the best of my ability and certainly to my satisfaction." According to Wagner, the offer was made in Room 939 at Albany's DeWitt Clinton Hotel to Manhattan Leader J. Raymond Jones, a Wagner supporter and the first Negro to head Tammany Hall. The Democratic chairman of Schenectady County, George Palmer, recalled the scene: "Jones comes in and looks around at me, McKeon and the others and says, 'Boys, I'm old enough to be your father...
Erie Stanley Gardner might call it The Case of the Shrinking Celebrity. Three times in the past year, TV's Perry Mason, Raymond Burr, 47, has slipped into South Viet Nam, visited some 8,000 U.S. servicemen stationed in remote areas, sometimes with Viet Cong shells bursting near by, and issued no publicity about it to boost his ratings. He jotted down the names of thousands of servicemen whose relations he called up for a personal report when he got back. Burr hobbled through his most recent Jeep-and-helicopter round last month despite a painfully pinched leg nerve...
...GREAT DEBATE by Raymond Aron. 265 pages. Doubleday...