Word: eiffel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Heritage. In Paris, collapsing after she had climbed 345 ft. up the outside girders of the 984-ft. Eiffel Tower, Aniche Cava, 28, explained: "My grandfather tried it and failed. I wanted to save the family honor...
...incredible that a show--and an amateur one to boot--could maintain so high a level of music and lyrics as I saw last night. And yet Eiffel Trifle goes from one high point to the next with the most minor of sags. Only an occasional bit of mawkish and misfitting dialogue mars a generally amusing book and completely wonderful words and music...
Before the natural wonders of the world and facing its innumerable small mysteries, before Niagara Falls, Mount Rushmore and the Eiffel Tower, in Siamese temples, French cathedrals and New England general stores, at the bottom of the Grand Canyon and at the top of the Empire State Building, the U.S. amateur photographer pursues his hobby. His camera's combined clicks (he is taking nearly 2 billion pictures this year) would drown the loudest thunder, and the combined light from his flashbulbs (he is using 500 million) would make a major planet pale. The sun to him is chiefly...
...find out if her son was still alive, Mrs. Greenlease one night talked to him directly and requested Hall to ask Bobby two questions: What was the name of the Greenlease driver in Europe last summer? What did Bobby do his last night at home? (Answer: he built an Eiffel tower with blocks.) Hall told her he would try to get replies from Bobby, later said he could not because the boy would not "cooperate." Those in the Greenlease home, knowing something of the history of child kidnapings. feared from the first that the boy was dead. After Mrs. Green...
...Until they are 21, Robert, 12, and Gerald, n, will live with their Jewish relatives. Then they may decide what faith they wish to hold. Last week, questioned about their wishes by the Paris press, Robert and Gerald limited themselves to the wish to visit the Louvre and the Eiffel Tower...