Word: renee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Napoleon's Width. What rubs salt in the wound is that the French claim to have invented the automobile, either in 1873, when one Amedée Bollée built a steam car that was driven from Paris to Bordeaux, or in 1891, when Rene Panhard and Emile Levassor placed a German Daimler motor on a chassis and thus created the first true auto. France remained the center of the automotive world until World War I, when the U.S. forged ahead. But the ardor for cars has never dimmed, and with today's prosperity, French automakers sell...
...into every anthology a little of the obtuse and trite will creep. "Life Must Surpass Itself" by Rene Dubos was a piece I never made it through; one can stand only so many phrases such as "the responsibilities of the future" and "the spirit of human brotherhood." "The Revolution of the Women" delves into the problem of freedom as "a burden and a responsibility...
...Afterward the five-Antoine Pinay, Guy Mollet, Pierre Pflimlin, Rene Pleven and Rene Mayer-were invited to luncheon at the Metz prefecture by De Gaulle's representative, Minister of State Louis Joxe. But the ex-Premiers declined the invitation when they learned that Schuman's old friend Jean Monnet, who was also present, had been left out of the party...
...Died. Rene Robert Bouche, 57, brilliant Manhattan portraitist, Vogue illustrator, TIME cover artist (Jean Kerr, Sophia Loren, John F. and Edward Kennedy); of a heart attack; in Ling-field, England. A slight, wiry, cosmopolite (Czech-born, to a French father, Hungarian mother), Bouche studied in Munich and Paris, went through "all the isms-expressionism, surrealism, nonobjectivism"-before settling in New York in 1941 to find his real calling: chronicling "the quintessential people of our time" from Arp to Zeckendorf, and producing a gallery always elegant and sometimes profound-as when he painted Elsa Maxwell as a Velasquez court dwarf...
...outsiders. Moreover, while French Canadians comprised nearly 30% of Canada's population, they held only 13% of the responsible jobs in civil service. They found that although Canada was officially bilingual, French was a working language only in Quebec-a manifestation of what Quebec Natural Resources Minister Rene Levesque calls "the Kenya colonist outlook." He adds: "There are already people asking why the English have so many rights and privileges in Quebec when the French don't have them elsewhere...