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...Rome, while waiting near the Chamber of Deputies to pick up Italy's Communist boss, Palmiro Togliatti, Chauffeur Reclus Monari suddenly became the richest Communist chauffeur in the country. He was named winner of a 54 million lire ($86,400) football pool. Said Monari: "I'll certainly give several millions to the party and a handsome gift to Comrade Togliatti...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 22, 1952 | 12/22/1952 | See Source »

Died. Armand Reclus, 83, who in 1879 traced the line afterward used without change for the Panama Canal; in Paris...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jan. 24, 1927 | 1/24/1927 | See Source »

...university at Hyderabad. At Bombay he has collected a city-planning exhibition occupying a hall 200 feet long. In Palestine he cooperated with the Zionists in survey work, including plans for a Hebrew university on Mt. Scopas. Geddes was a friend and colleague of Elisée Reclus, the great French geographer, and originated with him the idea of " regional surveys" to consider man in relation to his geographic environment. He is co-editor with Victor V. Branford of the "Making of the Future " series on social problems...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: A Modern Leonardo | 5/19/1923 | See Source »

...Elisee Reclus, the well-known French geographer, is to spend some months at Cambridge, working at the Harvard College library. He is collecting material for his work on North America...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 3/2/1891 | See Source »

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