Word: ren
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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They shall not pass," declared Prefect René Jannin of the department of Isère, invoking the immortal words of Marshal Pétain before the 1916 Battle of Verdun. This time, however, the attacking army was not only German but also Swiss, Belgian, Italian, Spanish, British and mostly French-perhaps 30,000 demonstrators in all. They were protesting against "Super Phénix," France's giant Plutonium breeder reactor, under construction near Malville, 28 miles east of Lyon...
Sweet and Guarded. Such perfectionism does not mean that De Niro is all work and no play, though it is some times a close thing. He is married to Actress Diahnne Abbott, whose torchy ren dition of Honeysuckle Rose in New York, New York upstages Liza Minnelli's belting. He is the demonstrably proud fa ther of chubby, seven-month-old Raphael (notes Papa earnestly: "He's been laughing since he was a month...
...Trouble. Demonstrating that hearts and minds policy, some days earlier Trudeau put in an appearance in Quebec at the annual holiday honoring St. Jean Baptiste, the province's patron saint. There, Quebec Premier René Lévesque also happens to be making big trouble for Trudeau on the most explosive issue in officially bilingual Canada: language rights. A fundamental goal of Lévesque's party is that Quebec "will be the country of a people that speaks French." Stripped of secessionist overtones, that aim makes great sense to many of the 4.8 million French-speaking Quebeckers...
...authorities because he is a Communist. With the mayor comes a loan of the priceless bronze Boy with a Dolphin by Renaissance Sculptor Andrea del Verrocchio. The Detroiters had thought that they had the loan of Donatello's David locked up-a sure-fire draw for the new Ren Cen-but the Italian culture ministry said...
...center's supporters concede that it is too early to call the project a success. Says Ford Financial Expert Stanley Seneker: "We are looking ahead to something like four or five years to make this a reasonable business proposition." Ren Cen, however, was intended not to enrich its backers but to revitalize the city. Here, too, judgment of its effectiveness is premature, but there are already a few stirrings of rebirth downtown. A new riverfront plaza is under construction near by; it boasts an obelisk and a fountain by the noted sculptor Isamu Noguchi. Part of Woodward Avenue will...