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...President of the French Republic¶Monsieur René Coty...
Died. Germaine Corblet Coty, 69, wife of France's President René Coty; of a heart attack; at the President's summer residence, the Château de Rambouillet near Paris...
...easy to see why these tutees found Gilmore reassuring, and why his current history course is so popular. Renaissance and Reformation--better known as "Ren and Ref"--overflowed two lecture halls this fall before it finally found one large enough. During class one of Gilmore's hands inevitably slips into a pocket while the other juggles a piece of chalk. His calmly-delivered lectures do not proceed chronologically, but roam topically instead...
Suddenly, all France rang with voices warning the politicos to mend their ways. President René Coty himself joined in the alarm: "In the course of their ephemeral existence, the successive chiefs of government have unceasingly, and for any reason, seen their confidence and authority questioned by those who invested them. Day after day, they are tormented and harassed until they are morally and physically exhausted." Pointedly, Coty cited Clemenceau's dictum: "Liberty is the right to discipline oneself so as not to be disciplined by others." In the pages of Le Figaro, André François-Poncet...
...Born. To Renée ("Zizi") Jeanmaire, 30, quicksilvery ballerina and musicomedy star (The Girl in Pink Tights) and Roland Petit, 31, founder-director of the French Ballets de Paris, in which Jeanmaire first starred: their first child, a daughter; in Paris...