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Flags flew at half-mast in Brussels over the headquarters of the Common Market. The tribute was in homage to that grand old Eurocrat, Robert Schuman. His death last week at 77 remined the world that the new Europe which Charles de Gaulle so grandly purports to head owes much of its impetus to other Frenchmen with broader horizons...
Reared in Lorraine while it was un der the Kaiser's rule, Schuman was a German for the first 33 years of his life. When the Treaty of Versailles returned Lorraine to France after World War I, he became French (although he never lost his German accent) and was elected a Deputy. Educated in the law, lean and tall with a toothbrush mustache, the ascetic Schuman was a natural for the finance commission, where he served for 17 years. He ate cheap meals, prowled his offices snapping off lights. A lifelong bachelor, Schuman once answered the door...
Lone Loss. But when it came to his dream of the future Europe, Schuman was a leader among Europe's postwar generation of Christian Democratic radical integrationists. After helping found the Catholic M.R.P. and twice serving as postwar Premier of France (from November 1947 to July 1948, and for another brief period later in 1948), Schuman took over the Foreign Minister's post. In 1949, after helping draw up the North Atlantic Treaty blueprint, he signed the historic NATO pact on France's behalf. In 1950, in league with another French Eurocrat, Jean Monnet, he proposed...
...William Schuman, president, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts. . D.F.A...
...Schuman knows how to delegate authority, but he is not "a believer in the chain-of-command concept. I have always jumped channels and will continue to do so." His first move at Lincoln Center was to call his staff to his austerely neat office to ask them to discuss their "projects"-a favorite word-and to propose some projects of his own. He then set completion dates and asked for progress reports. The project he is happiest about so far: a $10 million special fund earmarked by Lincoln Center to support educational projects and to encourage the commissioning...