Word: saints
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Charles Schneider, 62, head since 1942 of Schneider et Cie, big French holding company (more than $300 million in assets), whose family has been one of Europe's top steel and heavy-equipment manufacturers for four generations; of a heart attack; in Saint-Tropez, France...
...elected assemblies responsible for the machinery of local government. In addition, the territories elected deputies to the National Assembly in Paris, where they picked up considerable political experience on an international scale-and let a little French culture rub off on them. African army officers were schooled at Saint-Cyr, received commissions in the French Army; apprentice diplomats were trained at the Quai d'Orsay, served as counselors and secretaries in French em bassies around the world...
...When it came to women, Rush's 19th century successors were even more gallant than he. John Rogers' Lost Pleiad shows American sculpture at its most blatantly sentimental. Daniel French's Memory is a matronly nude shown brooding about some lost and precious moment, and Augustus Saint-Gaudens' golden Diana is as winsome as the larger original that once graced the top of the old Madison Square Garden...
Among other French draughtsmen whose work is included in the exhibit are Jean Antoine Watteau, Gabriel de Saint-Aubin, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, Edgar Degas, and Pierre Auguste Renoir...
...Saint-Exupery, by Marcel Migeo. Modern flight's literary Daedalus soars again, though the hot, worshipful prose tends to melt this biography in mid-journey...