Word: ren
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Sudden Retirement. Though the U.S. is trying to compel Duvalier to mend his ways, Haiti's intransigent tyrant was still showing a preference for his own gang instead of the army. The army's chief of staff, General Jean-René Boucicaut, worried for his own safety, fled with his wife and children to asylum in the Venezuelan embassy. Swearing in a replacement, his fifth army boss in as many years, "Papa Doc," as Duvalier likes to be called, blandly announced that the 44-year-old Boucicaut had reached "the age of retirement...
...Married. René Bouché. 56, Manhattan portraitist, Vogue illustrator, TIME cover painter (Jean Kerr, John F. Kennedy, Sophia Loren); and Anne Denise Alicia Lawson-Johnston, 34, a former editor of Vogue; he for the second time, she for the first; in London...
...sometimes only briefly, by "everybody."' The next night, the Chicago collectors Mr. and Mrs. Arnold Maremont chartered a vaporetto to take 130 guests to dine on the island of Torcello. After dinner, a band was brought in and everyone did the twist, including British Sculptor Lynn Chadwick and René d'Harnoncourt, the chief dignitary from Manhattan's Museum of Modern...
There is, as the great Dane Sören Kierkegaard wrote, "an infinite qualitative difference" between time and eternity, between man and God. The only bridge to God is the one that God provides-the bridge of faith that can come to man only after he has recognized the futility of his own efforts to meet his Creator...
...fact many of the nicknames are now standard references for courses--house-hold words, if you will: "Mint Juleps" for History 165, Paul Buck's History of the South; "Ren and Ref" for History 130, Myron Gilmore's The Age of the Renaissance and Reformation; "Boats" for History 163, Maritime and Naval History with Robert Albion; "Rice Paddies" for Social Sciences 111, The History of Far Eastern Civilization; and "Chink Think" for Humanities 112, Classics of the Far East...