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...Progenitor of the aerotrain is 49-year-old Engineer-Designer Jean Berlin, who in August 1965, after eight years at the drawing board, received a $600,000 grant from France to build and test his invention on a 31-mile stretch of unused railroad track between the villages of Gometz and Limours. Bertin, who already had the backing of a $1,000,000 company made up of 18 industrial giants such as the French National Railroads, Nord Aviation and Hispano-Suiza, ripped up the standard-gauge track between the two somnolent towns, replaced it with a concrete monorail shaped...
...Lafpoon, and one with the same possibilities that the Ugly Duckling promised. But it is as unprovocative as it can be. If the good burghers of Bayeux ever see a copy, they may mutter a few "Sacre bleus," but who else could it provoke? Even the Lampoon's toothless progenitor, Punch, doesn't shy away from talking politics. Nor should the Lampoon, which never takes a stand, never catches you unawares, never makes you drop your jaw and the magazine at an outrageous line. In olden days, jesters felt obliged to insult monarchs. It is time that the Lampoon lived...
...something of a wonder that the merger did not take place long ago. As early as 1803, one denominational precursor of the Wesleyan-spirited E.U.B. held tentative merger consultations with the Methodists; in 1871, another E.U.B. progenitor, the Evangelical Association, approved by one vote a union with the Methodists that was never consummated...
...visit was a useful introduction for Wilson to the Gaullist most likely to succeed De Gaulle-if Gaullism sur vives its progenitor. Already Pompidou is le général's undisputed domestic-policy manager, and the only man in his Cabinet that De Gaulle calls by his first name. Though the burly, bushy-browed professor turned banker turned politician had made visits to Japan, India and Denmark for the Fifth Republic, London was actually his major diplomatic debut...
...finally wheezes to a halt at one of England's stateliest homes. Out of the limousine steps Sophia Loren as Lady L, a spruce 80-year-old who bears a striking resemblance to the late Dowager Queen Mary. Well-wishers greet her with respect, for she is the progenitor of four generals, an admiral, a bishop and other dignitaries, several of whose names escape...