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...things stood until Cardinal-Prince Louis de Rohan, France's ranking church official and an illustrious member of one of the nation's great families, told the jewelers that the Queen wanted to buy the necklace surreptitiously, through him. It was delivered to the cardinal and passed on to the Queen's messenger...
...then it vanished. When the jewelers pressed for payment, Marie Antoinette said she had never received it, never sent a messenger, and had not uttered a word to Cardinal Rohan since he had fallen into court disgrace several years earlier. The cardinal, it appeared, had tried a desperate swindle to extricate himself from debts even more enormous than his income. He was ushered to the Bastille...
...Rohan pleaded that the Queen had signed a contract, and that he had been in constant communication with her through an intermediary, the beautiful Countess de la Motte, who was thrown into the Bastille too. Although she protested her innocence, she seemed to be the key to the affair. The cardinal was one of her lovers-and so was almost every other man mentioned in the story except Louis XVI, who had trouble with sex. She had spent her childhood in rags, and at the time of the necklace theft was spending money with wild ostentation. But there were holes...
While experts were still collecting the North Carolina wreckage, the head of the National Airlines branch of the pilots' union, Captain Robert J. Rohan, fired off a telegram to FAAdministrator Elwood Quesada suggesting a charge that made more responsible pilots' union members gasp. The FAA's recently instituted pilot check procedure, Rohan implied, may have caused both the crash of National's DC-6B and the crash of a National-operated DC-7B (with 42 dead) last November over the Gulf of Mexico. FAA's pilot-proficiency tests require pilots to go through "approaches...
...Columbia game, the Crimson could get only two hits, much class score. Don Butters beat out a bunt in the second, and Walt Greeley lined a single to counter in the ninth for the only hits off Columbia's Jack Rohan, starting his first Ivy league game...