Word: waldeck
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sweltering heat as the mile-long procession headed for Père-Lachaise. Ahead of the flag-draped coffin strode ranks of miners from Thorez' native north, wearing red scarves and white helmets. Behind the hearse walked row after row of foreign Communist officials. At the cemetery Waldeck Rochet, who succeeded Thorez as secretary-general only ten weeks ago, paid respects to his old chief...
Down in Front. But at 64, "cher Maurice" was not really retiring; in good corporate style, he simply moved upstairs. Assuming the newly created post of president, he made room for a man only five years his junior, Assistant Secretary-General Waldeck Rochet, a onetime shepherd boy who became the party's expert on agricultural affairs and has always been a loyal party wheelhorse. Plainly, Thorez will continue to make party policy. It was quite a demonstration of the power to hang on, considering that he still shows the effects of the paralytic stroke he suffered 14 years...
Wilhelmina was the child of a May and December marriage. King William III married the German Princess Emma of Waldeck-Pyrmont when he was 62 and she 20. Wilhelmina, their only child, was sole heir to the 400-year-old Orange-Nassau line. Closely sheltered, she led so desperately lonely a life that she once admonished one of her dolls, "If you are naughty, I shall make you into a queen, and then you won't have any other little children to play with." Null & Void. In her solitude, she developed a faith so intensely personal that whenever...
...Communist Party's No. 2 man. Waldeck Rochet, wearing metal-rimmed spectacles and a funereal suit, warned of the evils of Gaullist capitalism and of the military alliance with "vengeful" West Germany. Senate President Gaston Monnerville, a Negro born in French Guiana, spoke in the name of the Radical Party, argued legalistically that De Gaulle had violated the constitution and that his resignation threat, if he did not get an impressive yes vote, changed the referendum from a "consultation to a summons...