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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Normandy apple country he represents. A friendly, ruddy-faced man of 63, barrel-chested Assemblyman Laniel offered a "maybe-yes maybe-no" program with all the tight-fisted caution of a Norman farmer. After 36 days of bitter inter-party feuding, the fact that Joseph Laniel was relatively unknown (i.e., lacked enemies) made him an acceptable Premier. Nobody questioned him hard. The Assembly cheered him, voted him into power...
...hurled volleys of stones, charged the wire in masses. The U.S. guards fired, killing or wounding more than 100. Some prisoners were trampled to death, others were torn to bits on the wire. Altogether, more than 40 of them died at Inchon. The marines themselves were fired on by "unknown persons" outside the camp perimeter; one was seriously wounded...
...they are against you," he noted. Hence, "it is of the very greatest advantage to you to have your own supporters if you wish to win unjustly; and to play otherwise in the presence of a crowd is simply to waste your money." Gamesmanship, a modern art, was not unknown then and Cardano warns against the skillful practitioner who "can disturb your equanimity by making you afraid or angry...
...Unknown Political Prisoner...
Mysterious Figure. Despite his widespread interests, Lindsley has remained an unknown, almost mysterious figure in the business world. He divides his time between his apartment on Manhattan's Park Avenue and a fashionable house in Toronto's suburban Forest Hills. He works up to 15 hours a day, much of the time poring over geological maps spread out on the living-room floor. "His work is studying his own mines," a colleague once said. "His relaxation is studying someone else...