Word: edouard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Back in New Delhi last week, after his Swiss climbing expedition gave up just 900 ft. short of Mt. Everest's summit (TIME, March 31), Mountaineer Edouard Wyss-Dunant described a new difficulty facing future Everest climbers. The world's highest mountain, he announced, is getting higher all the time.* Although Everest's altitude is officially listed in India's records at 29,002 ft., the Swiss had expected to find it 81 ft. higher than that. But when they got there the mountain proved even higher by their calculations-29,610 ft. Wyss-Dunant...
...guidebook was started at the turn of the century by Edouard and André Michelin, the bearded brothers who invented the first removable bicycle tire and are credited with the introduction of the pneumatic auto tire. With the advent of the horseless carriage, André Michelin figured that a reliable guidebook would give both tourism and the tire business a boost. He was right. Today the Michelin Tire Co., still family-owned, is one of the biggest in the world. Worth some $57 million, it has plants in France, Italy, Britain, Belgium, Spain and Argentina. Michelin loses about...
...open French fears. The Germans might come to dominate the European Army and, through it, France. The Germans might get strong and break away. German rearmament might provoke Russia to attack. "It will take two years to relieve international tension if we are to rearm Germany," cried former Premier Edouard Daladier...
...weeks ago 79-year-old Speaker Edouard Herriot heaved himself up from his chair overlooking France's Assembly to announce that one of its members, Jacques Ducreux, 41, had been killed in an auto smashup. At once the other deputies stood up, according to custom, to wait for the expected eulogy. They knew this one would probably take time: after all, Monsieur Ducreux was a member of the executive committee of Herriot's own Radical Socialist Party. Herriot started off in style: he limned the pastoral beauties of the Vosges countryside where Ducreux came from, and recalled...
...little life of your own," Charles-Edouard's grandmother advises Grace, "will never be held against you [in France], so long as you always put your husband first." But Grace pines and rages, and at last takes the boat for England. "Are you divorced?" asks Sigi hopefully. "Georgie ... says it's an awfully good idea ... His Mummy and Daddy have both married again, so he's got two of each now, and he says the new ones are ... really better...