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With typical irresolution, Constant never finished Cécile, but life worked out an ending of sorts. Madame de Stael found a younger lover who was not so good a conversationalist. Constant married Charlotta, and thereupon fell in love with the beautiful Madame Recamier...
...Thereupon Milton and his optician brother Julian found a veteran camera technician named Friend Baker, who jiffy-built a stereo-camera by lashing together two standard 35-mm. Mitchell cameras geared to shoot "in sync." Early in 1951 Natural Vision, as the Gunzburgs called their company, began to peddle its process to the big studios. Fox, Columbia and Paramount said no; Metro took an option and let it drop...
...Assembly for debate. For 90 minutes he had sneered and snorted at the U.S. for "quibbling" and "stalling." Overnight the Poles withdrew their proposal, and Vishinsky, making a 180° turn with bland imperturbability, praised the Brazilian substitute as "good and appropriate . . . in the present circumstances." Sweet, rare unanimity thereupon prevailed for the first time on any matter involving the Korean war. The Assembly's Political Committee was so awed by what happened that it pattered applause. Pleased but unawed, U.S. Delegate Ernest Gross reminded his fellow delegates: "It is easier to compose a resolution than to compose differences...
...evils of the past." Needled by opposition, delays, Yoshida lost his temper, called an opposition member an idiot. In the excessively polite Japanese language, this was an insult indeed. Though he hastily apologized, the opposition pressed home a vote of censure, followed it up with the nonconfidence motion. Yoshida thereupon dissolved the Diet, forcing new elections, to be held April...
Sign to the Public. In 1950, Jacqueline Leonhard won another victory. The citizens of New Orleans became so enthusiastic about her ideas that they elected two like-minded members to serve with her. Thereupon the board made Mrs. Leonhard its first woman president, hired Architect Charles Colbert of Tulane University to head a whole new program of construction. In 1952, the city completed the revolution by electing two more pro-Leonhard members...