Word: riche
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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AFFAIRS AT STATE, by Henry Serrano Villard. An eminent career diplomat about to retire from the corps as Ambassador to Mauretania writes an acid lament for the lost art of diplomacy. His arguments are bitter: career men are undermined by rich, gauche political appointees; the supposedly myopic State Department has almost bankrupted the prestige of the U.S. ambassador...
Bits & Pieces. Most new African states have passed over their own rich native music to copy the marches and hymns of Europe. "I keep hearing bits and pieces from the Marche Consulaire," says one French African hand. The Brazzaville Congo's La Congolaise is vaguely reminiscent of La Marseillaise, and differs from the Debout Congolais of the Leopoldville Congo more in detail than in spirit: "Congolese, arise," sing the Brazzavillians, whereas Moise Tshombe's people are called upon to "Arise, Congolese...
...mere words" and help children to learn through observation, experimentation and reasoning. In the U.S., Horace Mann, contending that education could become "the most effective and benignant of all the forces of civilization," vastly strengthened the Massachusetts system of free public schools for the poor as well as the rich...
...small-time bootlegger with three months at Leavenworth to his credit, Oklahoman Sherman Billingsley had spent Prohibition managing a few New York speakeasies, including one called the Stork Club. When Prohibition ended, Billingsley took the name, and in 1934 set up shop with the dispassionate intent of getting rich off the rich. The idea collided with a need. Once again there were people with money, some of it old, quite a bit of it new, some borrowed, and not too much of it blue-blooded. And many of them craved a place where they could be both respectable and seen...
...Lion halfbacks are senior Roger Dennis and sophomore Rich Brown. Dennis caught 33 passes for 524 yards last season, but--alas--there's no one to throw to him this year. Brown is being touted by the Columbia PR boys as "the finest halfback prospect Columbia has had since the days of Tom Haggerty," whoever...