Word: rocher
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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AFRICA, by Emil Schulthess (Simon & Schuster; $20), grew out of a trip to "Rocher Noir," between Libya and French Equatorial Africa, to photograph an eclipse of the sun. Photographer Schulthess got his sun pictures, but he also took hundreds of others throughout Africa (a desert woman nuzzling her child, a Masai herdsman and his flock), which together seem to say more about the Dark Continent than many prose books...
...also that he fire his luxury-loving Minister of State. When Rainier retorted, "I will accept no limitations of my powers," there, for the moment, the matter rested, and all Monaco went back to listening for the great boom of the cannon on Monte Carlo's Le Rocher-21 rounds for a girl, 101 if the House of Grimaldi gets a male heir, which would doubly insure continued freedom from French income taxes...