Word: renee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...When Rene Verdon quit in a Gallic huff last month as White House chef, Lady Bird Johnson had already lined up his successor: Henri Haller, 43, Swiss-born executive chef at New York City's Sheraton-East Hotel, better known to gourmets as the old Ambassador (and soon to be torn down for an office building). By last week Haller's security clearance was in, and the White House announced his appointment. He was immediately enmeshed in the big blender of bureaucracy. The White House handout changed his first name to plain old Henry, and Liz Carpenter, Lady...
Last week the official most directly concerned told the U.N. General Assembly that massive drives against illiteracy have tended to spread money and effort too thinly, thus failing to concentrate on those people most eager to learn. Rene Maheu, an ever-optimistic former French philosophy professor and now Director General of UNESCO, reported on "a turning point in the struggle against illiteracy," whereby in 1966 UNESCO will organize at least eight pilot projects stressing selectivity. The United Nations Special Fund is expected to contribute $24 million to the program. The new African state of Mali, for example, wants to make...
...Canada's International Nickel and Falconbridge Nickel) of a scarce, strategically important metal. While the two governments are squabbling over the company's activities, the protagonists range far beyond the Quai d'Orsay and Foggy Bottom. They include Fidel Castro, Mao Tse-tung, former French Premier Rene Mayer and those storied bankers, the Rothschilds...
...Nickel is backed by some powerful forces. While the Cuban deal was being negotiated, the company's boss was Chairman Rene Mayer, who retired to the post of honorary chairman in January. The company is subsidized by the French government and controlled by the French Rothschilds, who are particularly close to Prime Minister Georges Pompidou, formerly the chief aide to Guy de Rothschild. Last month Guy de Rothschild and his brothers, owners of 10.6% of Le Nickel through several companies, carried out a complex exchange of stock to give them firmer control...
...original drafters) elected by the Council of Europe's Parliamentary Assembly, but usually it hears cases with seven judges-one from the country involved, six drawn by lot. Ironically, the drawing in all three of the court's cases has resulted in the choice of Judge Rene Cassin as court president-a Frenchman, representing a country that recognizes neither the commission nor the court...