Word: yvon
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Twelve years ago, Brundage offered his collection to San Francisco. By his stipulation, it took a $3,000,000 public bond issue to raise funds to house it, which the city voted in 1960. He also insisted on appointing his own curator, Yvon d'Argencé, a Frenchman who grew up in Viet Nam and who speaks and writes three Oriental languages...
...armament of France. The day before the election, Gaullist Information Minister Alain Peyrefitte announced that if he were in office when La Religieuse was finished, he would "not hesitate" to ban it. As it turned out, Peyrefitte was not in office; the job fell to new Secretary of Information Yvon Bourges, but he imposed the ban with equal dispatch...
...Race Track? The latest scandal was the forced resignation two weeks ago of Pearson's Minister Without Portfolio Yvon Dupuis. The youngest (38) man in the Cabinet, Dupuis was also one of the best campaigners and was extremely well connected to Quebec party bosses. Now Le Devoir and La Presse, two Montreal dailies, were full of stories that Dupuis had taken a $10,000 payoff to help some Quebec race-track promoters get a franchise in his home district. All Pearson will say publicly is that he asked Dupuis, who loudly proclaims his innocence, "to relinquish his position." Pearson...
...Cabinet shows no surprise choices, but Yvon Dupuis, M.P. from St. Jean-Iberville-Napierville was no ticeably absent. Since Dupuis successfully led the Liberal campaign in the key province of Quebec, many expected that Pearson would reward him with a Cabinet appointment...
...answer the Caouette challenge, the Liberals have rallied their provincial support, from the Provincial Premier, Jean Lesage, down to Yvon Dupuis, a music store proprietor in St. Jean. The presence of Lesage will undoubtedly bring many of his devoted provincial followers into the national party fold. Thirty-five old Dupuis is the Liberal Party's ace-in-the-hole, their answer to Caouette. Involved in Quebec politics since the age of 25, when he was elected to the Provincial Legislature, Dupis has been described as a Young Paul Martin, a powerful speaker with the Gallic flair of Caouette. His oratorical...