Word: vincent
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Astride his huge granite charger, Louis XIV, most unrepublican of monarchs, arrogantly dominates the sloping courtyard outside the Elysée Palace. Under Louis' haughty eye last week, Vincent Auriol's black Delage bumped slowly over the cobblestones. Bugles blared and magnesium flares zigzagged through the gathering gloom...
Half an hour before, 62-year-old Vincent Auriol, as President of the Assembly, had presided over his own election as 13th President of France. The Communists and Socialists together did not have enough votes, but Socialist Auriol had many Radical and M.R.P. friends whose votes pushed him over...
...accompaniment of rolling drums, Vincent Auriol had walked slowly out to the waiting car. Said he, with a sense of impending crisis: "I must go fast." Within half an hour he had received from Leon Blum the resignation of the interim Socialist government...
More probable presidential choices: Socialist Vincent Auriol, Radical Edouard Herriot...
Other icemen: Dr. Irving Langmuir and Vincent J. Schaefer of General Electric, the only men who have done anything about the weather. On Nov. 13, they proved that they could turn a cold cloud into snow by sprinkling it with dry ice (TIME, Nov. 25). Last week, Schaefer told of a further triumph. He walked into a cold ground fog swinging a wire basket of dry ice round his head. The fog parted, leaving a lane, as the Red Sea water parted for the Children of Israel...