Word: silents
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...private screening of a movie (preferably a comedy) or sit with Yvonne before the television set, like any bourgeois couple, until his 11 o'clock bedtime. There is a certain displeasure in France because 62-year-old Yvonne "does not play the President's wife." Self-effacing, silent, withdrawn, Mme. de Gaulle so avoids publicity that she is one of the most anonymous of all the wives of world leaders. A devout Roman Catholic, she is rumored to have vetoed a projected ministerial appointment because she disapproved of the sexual laxity of the man's wife...
...Silent Phones. Mornings in Paris, De Gaulle is awakened at 7 by his shy, grey-eyed wife Yvonne, for he will permit neither clocks nor radio in his bedroom. After a breakfast of black coffee and dry toast (croissants on Thursdays and Sundays), De Gaulle changes from striped pajamas to one of the ten double-breasted suits (navy blue, black, or charcoal grey) chosen and laid out by his valet, scans the morning papers and listens to the 8:15 news broadcast before crossing the hall to his office in the Salon Doré, also on the Elys...
...from dusk to dawn last week. At the front, an uneasy truce was maintained as Indian troops warily waited to see if the Red Chinese forces would keep their pledge to withdraw 12½ miles behind the lines they occupied on Nov. 7, 1959. But while the guns were silent, the diplomats were at work...
...notably silent manner, he has become not only one of Harvard's most thorough innovators but one of its great revolutionaries as well. Leighton has done so much for the University that it is easy to understand what one of his former freshmen meant when he said. "To us, he was just plain Harvard...
From her Manhattan hospital bed in mid-October, the late Eleanor Roosevelt wrote her last column for McCall's Magazine. Titled "Mrs. Roosevelt's Christmas Sampler," it listed the holiday customs she loved best. Her favorite carol: Silent Night; her favorite Christmas benevolence: "To invite a stranger from a foreign country, who would be alone, to our Christmas dinner"; her favorite Christmas cards: "Adlai Stevenson's beautifully illuminated messages'"; her favorite ornament: "A little angel that has topped our family tree since my children were babies"; and her favorite Christmas recipe: a bowl of eggnog, laced...