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...Constantine, European counterterrorists exploded plastic bombs. At the U.N., the Afro-Asian nations lined up 46 of the 50 nations needed to call a special session of the U.N. General Assembly to discuss Tunisia's charge of French aggression at Bizerte. Boatloads of thousands of penniless French refugees, fleeing the possibility of renewed war in Tunisia, were docking at Marseille. After digesting this unpleasant assortment of news, an aide of President Charles de Gaulle last week said worriedly, "Things are not going at all well, mon general." De Gaulle stared at him with studied surprise, asked solicitously, "What...
...Catholicism by missionaries in the 17th century. He was called to serve as administrative adviser to Emperor Thanh Thai in central Viet Nam's imperial capital of Hué, but quit in a huff when the French, interfering constantly in the affairs of the court, decided to depose the Emperor. Penniless ("We did not even have enough to pay for school," recalls Diem), Kha resigned himself to life as a farmer, borrowed enough money to rent some rice fields from neighbors, who were awed at the thought of an aristocrat and his family working beside them in the paddy fields...
...hate them," muttered Copper Heiress Peggy Guggenheim, 63, as she reminisced about the many hungry artists she has subsidized over the years. Last week, as angry as ever, Patroness Guggenheim claimed that the late Abstract Expressionist Jackson Pollock had turned out paintings on the side during the penniless years when she had been paying him $300 a month for his entire output (except for one picture per year). Her response: a law suit against the artist's widow, Lee Krasner Pollock (herself a highly regarded abstractionist), demanding either the paintings or the proceeds from the alleged moonlighting operations, plus...
...sparked the renaissance is Methodism's "Mr. College"-the Rev. John Owen Gross, 66, a carpenter's son whose freewheeling presidency of Kentucky's Union College is a Methodist legend. Gross saved the penniless campus by using his spending power as county relief boss in the Depression ("We built a lot of sidewalks"). Later he remodeled Iowa's Simpson College, in 1941 became head of all church-college relations...
...19th century epistlemanship demanded a letter a day. Freud gushed anguished longing and Dutch-uncle lectures to his loved one. Martha was "my sweet princess," "highly esteemed princess," "dearest highly esteemed little princess," and "Your Sigmund" sent her "100,000 kisses, all of which are to be cashed." A penniless knight-errant, Freud was quite a gallant: "What can it be that you want ... a tooth out of the Caliph's jaw, a jewel from Queen Victoria's crown, a giant's autograph, or something equally fantastic which would mean putting on my armor at once...