Word: yoth
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Slapped Face. In yet another gloomy portent for the future, De Gaulle-who this week celebrates his yoth birthday-was finding the Fifth Republic's hand-tailored governmental apparatus increasingly balky and unreliable. In the National Assembly, despite their awareness that they would surely be outvoted, opposition Deputies introduced a motion of censure protesting De Gaulle's cherished bill to create a French nuclear force. Even the trial of the men who led last January's right-wing insurrection in Algeria backfired when the nine-man military tribunal granted "provisional liberty" to ex-Paratrooper Pierre Lagaillarde...
...interest in which versatile Van Vechten still excels. Still a chronic essayist, Van Vechten turned 80 last week and was honored by the New York Public Library as one of its chief benefactors, donor of many literary treasures that he has collected over the years. His name is the yoth to be carved in stone in New York City's main library...
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