Word: ren
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Moment of Truth. The dramatic moment came when ex-Premier René Mayer, an influential industrialist (identified with the Rothschild interests) and a member of Mendès' own Radical Socialist Party, took the rostrum. Mayer, whose constituency is Constantine in Algeria, was against Mendès' attempts to negotiate a North African settlement with the nationalist rebels. He was plainly on the side of the French settlers, and brushed aside talk of cruelty on the part of the French forces. "Repression always has a cruel aspect," he said coolly. "But this time it has been just...
...readvanced his argument, and finally got his way: the appointment of Gaullist Jacques Soustelle, 43, as governor general of Algeria. When they heard the news, opposition Deputies cried "à la soupe!" (i.e., gravy). In his own Radical Party, Mendés had to face severe criticism. Said ex-Premier René Mayer: "This action may gain the Prime Minister votes from some other quarters, but it may well cost him an equal number from the ranks of his own comrades." Replied Mendès acidly: "I did not look up M. Soustelle's radical pedigree. I sought...
...Married. Renée ("Zizi") Jeanmaire, 30, tiny, cat-quick ballerina and musi-comedy star (The Girl in Pink Tights); and Roland Petit, 30, founder and director of France's famed Ballets de Paris, in which Jeanmaire first starred; in Saint-Cyr-la-Rivière, France...
...developed the germ theory of disease, medical scientists have concentrated on helping the patient by attacking the germs, first with preventive vaccines, latterly with antibiotics that arrest or alter the course of full-blown disease. Last week, before a packed audience at the New York Academy of Medicine, Dr. René Jules Dubos, most imaginative of Pasteur's scientific heirs, suggested a radically new approach: work not on the microbes but on the patient, so that the microbe-invaders will never have a chance to cause disease...
Secretary-General Jean Mons, not able to believe in the guilt of two such trusted employees, was brought to the ministry to hear their confessions. "Forgive me!" cried fat, thin-mouthed René Turpin, who had made a career by attaching himself to Mons and traveling upward with him. "This is an affair of crypto- Communism," said the police. "They knew perfectly well where their information was going. They wanted to give the opposition information for their campaign to stop the war in Indo-China and ban the atom bomb...