Word: ren
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...René Pleven, 68, Minister of Justice, also a Centrist, was twice Premier in the Fourth Republic and adds another pro-European voice to the Cabinet. A brisk and practical politician, Pleven served in De Gaulle's immediate postwar Cabinets, but went his own way after the general quit office in 1948. He was a chief author of the European Defense Community scheme and thus forever afterward barred from any De Gaulle Cabinet. His appointment now is designed to still criticism of the government's heavy-handed manipulation of the courts, though the assignment is liable to bring...
...some legal scholars, the most notable characteristic of the Warren court -and one that may distinguish it from Burger's-was its decision to decide. Perhaps no case better illustrates the difference than that of barred Congressman Adam Clayton Powell, in which the War, ren court reversed a decision by Burger's former court. As a member of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, Burger had written in the Powell case: "Courts encounter some problems for which they can supply no solution." Later he remarked: "What if we ordered the House to seat Powell...
...support of non-Gaullist parties, Pompidou promised to make what he called "openings" in domestic and foreign policy. The Gaullists fear that those openings might erode their power. Some of them are worried that Pompidou might bring too many outsiders into his Cabinet, while others, notably former Justice Minister René Capitant, are fretting that Pompidou will not pursue De Gaulle's social schemes, such as worker participation in management...
Rockefeller has always sought and welcomed advice from associates at the Modern. The person on whom he most relied was the late René d'Harnoncourt, the museum's former director and a vice president of the Museum of Primitive Art, who was killed in an auto accident last summer. Rockefeller met the courtly d'Harnoncourt, an extraordinarily knowledgeable specialist on primitive art, in the late 1930s. Together, they built Rockefeller's collection into one of the finest in the world. In 1949, he became director of the Modern, demonstrating a flair for showmanship, fund-raising...
...Rockefeller, the merger fulfilled an ambition that he had cherished since the 1930s. Then, as a youthful trustee of the Met, he had tried to interest its director in starting such a collection on the ground that its esthetic beauty was as great as that of more classical sculpture. "René d'Harnoncourt and I shared this hope, this thought, this dream," said Rockefeller. "I am pleased that it has been realized...