Word: xenophon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...guessed there had to be a University of Kansas." MacDonald was right, of course-there has been a University of Kansas for 100 years. Last week he and a dozen other celebrities helped K.U. mark its centennial, and saw how the school that started out offering courses in "Xenophon's Anabasis" and "Cicero's Orations" has grown to a big and diverse university full in the process of self-renewal...
Every war breeds its balladeers, and Viet Nam is no exception. Xenophon's Greek mercenaries marched "up country" into the Persian empire 2,300 years ago to the rhythm of harshly sung battle hymns; Wellington's light infantry quick-stepped through the Iberian peninsula to the bugles of Over the Hills and Far Away. Pershing's doughboys remarked the lack of lingerie in Armentieres, while Rommel's Afrika
...central bank with powers to create its own money. Yale Economist Robert Triffin revived and modernized this idea in 1959, and it has been embraced-in one form or another-by such experts as Prime Minister Wilson, former British Exchequer Chancellor Reginald Maudling, Greece's Central Bank Chief Xenophon Zolotas and Bank of Italy Governor Guido Carli. Wilson's version of the plan would work this way: 1) the IMF would create certificates of credit; 2) countries would buy these certificates with their own currencies, use them to settle foreign debts; 3) the IMF would use the national...
...Britian's Harold Macmillan and the U.S.'s Robert Murphy, Couve at war's end was made Ambassador to Rome. He subsequently held the same post in Egypt, NATO and the U.S., where Jacqueline Couve de Murville was admired for her elegance, and the family dachshund, Xenophon, became something of a local celebrity. Couve's next post was West Germany, and one afternoon in the spring of 1958, soon after De Gaulle returned to office, he was reached on a Cologne golf course with orders to rush back to France...
...into the office of any other-with the exception of the minister, his secretary-general and the chief of personnel. Individualism is the fashion: if he wants to, an officer can bring his dog to the Quai, and even Couve de Murville occasionally appears with Jason, the son of Xenophon...