Word: ren
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...France's peak listening hour. Hundreds of thousands of listeners heard David give French Communist Boss Maurice Thorez one of the roughest dressings-down that he had ever suffered. Paix et Liberté's free time on the air had been arranged by Premier René Pleven...
...little into the cafe; he remembered particularly one regular customer, a "beautiful woman," of whom he could seldom see more than a white arm and shoulder. Another idea in Petit's head came from watching a performance of South Pacific with his Carmen, tiny, bob-haired Ballerina Renée Jeanmaire. He had come out impressed with the gaiety of U.S. musicomedy; she had come out sighing, "I would like to sing like Mary Martin." Somehow, Petit wanted to put a bit of all of those ideas together and produce a ballet with songs...
...into a jewel thief who steals diamonds "not to wear or sell, but to eat, like children crunch candy." The first the audience saw of her was a slim white arm and shoulder, snaking out through a hole in the wall to lift the wallets of passersby. When Ballerina Renée Jeanmaire finally turned up in full view (in sexy black tights) to sing & dance her bit ("I'm a cruncher of diamonds, I can't do without this vitamin . . ."), she brought the house down...
...institute's works, often in obscure fields, have mostly been hidden from the public, which has sometimes benefited only indirectly. Example: at the institute in Manhattan, overlooking the East River, famed Microbiologist René J. Dubos first encouraged bacteria to produce poisons to wipe out other bacteria. Dubos' early antibiotics proved of limited value, but his theory and practice are the foundation on which most of the lifesaving science of antibiotics has been reared. It was also at the institute that the late Alexis Carrel, keeping a piece of chicken heart "alive" under glass, added...
...Premier René Pleven's cabinet of Socialists, Popular Republicans, other center and moderate right parties, formed last July, shooed off the Assembly for a pro longed vacation. Then Pleven announced a forceful program. He wanted to increase compulsory military service from 12 to 18 months, to double the military budget, to outlaw Communist spies and saboteurs, etc. But to translate all this into action, he still needed the Assembly. Last week the legislators came back to Paris. Pleven's cabinet immediately found itself teetering. Its survival was threatened by four issues...