Word: val
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, 43, Finance Minister, was Pompidou's second choice for the job, after Antoine Pinay, France's personification of financial stability, turned the post down. Giscard was an obvious alternative, if a controversial one to loyal Gaullists, who dubbed him "Giscariot" after he opposed De Gaulle in the April referendum. Brilliant, rich and openly ambitious, Giscard affects an image à la Kennedy, has had himself photographed skiing France's Grande-Motte glacier and hunting wild boar in the Soviet Union. During his four years as De Gaulle's Finance Minister...
SWORD LINE can carry the weight and win, PRINCESS VAL is ridden by hot apprentice R. Casey, LIGHTNING STORM...
...life. Tike is a boy who lives in a room and works nights shelving books at a library. He has a dog named McDog and an unfailing fountain of music from his stereo. A lady gives him a record for his helpful knowledge of discography. A girl downstairs named Val wants to sleep with Tike and does. Other people in his building invite him into their lives...
There is a feeling in my shoulders and arms of not holding something. I would like to have held Val then or Lilian in the hall or Irene just now. I feel there is nothing I can hold. Val is the first girl I have actually known at all whom I have held. It was an emptiness in me for years...
Personal Requirements. The Secretary of State is, in effect, the Vatican's Prime Minister. Villot is the first non-Italian to serve in this capacity since Spain's Cardinal Merry del Val held the office under Pius X from 1903 to 1914. While there was some surprise that this sensitive job would go to a non-Italian, the appointment was in keeping with Paul's long-declared intention of internationalizing the Curia. Two years ago, 20 of the 24 highest posts in the Vatican bureaucracy were held by Italian prelates; now, only eight top posts are held...