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...Assembly-had kept in line behind their stern leader. By staying out of coalition governments, which fell one after another, De Gaulle hoped to show that the constitution of the French parliament was unworkable and must be reformed. Judging by the despair Frenchmen felt at the collapse of their 13th postwar government, De Gaulle had almost made his case...
Adler is already off on his next great project, which, if he succeeds, will make the Syntopicon look like an exam pony. Adler wants to summarize all the knowledge of the Western world in one vast work, comparable to Aquinas' 13th century Summa or Diderot's 18th century Encyclopaedia. His aim: to help end the Babel of Western civilization, in which specialists in various fields not only disagree but cannot even argue with each other in the same language. He does not want to reach conclusions, but simply clear the decks for "some future philosophic genius" by summing...
Disgusted Edgar Faure marched out of the Chamber, followed by his cabinet. In 40 days as Premier he had lost ten pounds. At 4:30 that morning he drove to the Elysée Palace, handed his resignation to President Auriol, and went home to bed. For the 13th time under the Fourth Republic, France was without a government...
Dick Ireland of Middlebury won the giant slalom, with Crimson skiers, Captain John Houser and Whitey Black placing 13th and 18th...
...raincoat around him. Eventually he put on enough muscle and height so that he was twice selected to represent his class in bare-knuckle bouts with plebes. According to the code of the Point, the plebes could escape hazing if they won. Wood licked both his plebes. He graduated 13th in a class of 54, and was shipped off to the Philippines as a cavalry lieutenant in charge of 100 men and horses, to help clean up Aguinaldo's insurrectos...