Word: rosee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...just across the street from No. 10; Butler, a grim rider in a black Daimler, was momentarily roused from introspection by the cheers of the crowd; Hailsham, reportedly the hardest-dying, refused to say anything about anything. They came and went, as the sun set and the TV lights rose, then came and went again. Lord Privy Seal Edward Heath went on BBC television to praise Home's "integrity, clarity, judgment and perseverance" and to hope "that all our colleagues will be able to serve with him." Selwyn Lloyd insisted "he will make an outstanding Prime Minister." Heading...
...even in success, la vie en rose eluded Edith Piaf. Her greatest love, Boxer Marcel Cerdan, was killed in a plane crash in 1949, and her first marriage ended in divorce. Four separate automobile accidents all but crushed her frail body, and she was racked with ulcers, jaundice, arthritis, and cirrhosis of the liver. She took to drugs and young men, married her second husband, Hairdresser Théo Sarapo, 25, only last year, when she was 46. Each misfortune marred her voice but only seemed to give new poignancy to her artistry. Despite doctors' warnings, the nearly crippled...
Point of View. Yale's 17th president fits no educator's conventional mold. In college, he rose to become chairman of the Daily News, but on Tap Day, when Yale juniors are selected for secret societies, a delegation from Skull & Bones searched for Brewster in vain, finally found him firmly seated on a basement toilet, from which perspective he declined membership. At the start of World War II, when Yale's President...
...would rather lose 28-27 than win 7-6." Two weeks ago, when tricky Pitt pulled a fake kick, passed for two extra points and beat California, 35-15, for its third straight victory of the season, the entire student cheering section gave Litchfield a standing ovation as he rose in his box and gave the clenched-fist signal: "Go, Pitt...
Died. Gustaf Gründgens, 63, Germany's most celebrated actor, producer and director, an elegant, arrogant Düsseldorfer who rose to fame in the 1920s as Hamlet and the mocking Mephistopheles of Faust, lost most of his friends when he became Hitler's chief of state theaters, yet proved so irreplaceable that after the war he was chosen to direct the state theaters of Düsseldorf (1947-54) and Hamburg (1955-63), making them the top German stages with a repertory of classics (Schiller, Ibsen) and moderns (Brecht, Eliot); of an accidental overdose of barbiturates...