Word: wilfrid
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...MIDDLE CLASS EDUCATION (425 pp.)-Wilfrid Sheed-HoughtonMifflin...
...Gaulle's face," crowed one ultra. "Even the judges he chose saw the light." And in the top echelons of the government, doubts as to the wisdom or workability of the new Algerian program were so strong that half a dozen Cabinet members, including Finance Minister Wilfrid Baumgartner and Interior Minister Pierre Chatenet, were rumored to be on their...
...mission, Scriptwriter Estridge appoints an aging Kipling Stripling, Captain Scott (Kenneth More), and to follow him he assembles an improbable rout of colonial types: the pudgy little rajah (Govind Raja Ross), his noisy American governess (Lauren Bacall), the British governor's unflappable wife (Ursula Jeans) and dithering secretary (Wilfrid Hyde White), a nefarious newsman (Herbert Lorn), two stolid Sikhs attached to primordial machine guns, a charming person (I.S. Johar) who runs locomotives, and an unspeakable person (Eugene Deckers) who runs guns. They all pile into an ancient passenger car drawn by a wondrously dilapidated steam engine called "Victoria"-apparently...
...Michel Debré, twice into discussions with President de Gaulle himself. At last, after a flurry of ambiguous communiques, came the laconic announcement that despite De Gaulle's "appreciation" of Pinay's successful economic policies, Pinay was through as Finance Minister. To replace him De Gaulle named Wilfrid Baumgartner, 57, longtime governor of the Bank of France...
...More Games. By naming Wilfrid Baumgartner to Pinay's old job, De Gaulle adroitly sought to reassure France's business community that the Fifth Republic was not about to plunge into economic statism. Member of a famed French Protestant family, Baumgartner won the coveted title of inspecteur des finances at 27, has long been known as a "sound-money" man. He said that he had "formal assurances" that he could continue the policies "now underway...