Word: setting
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...setting for most of leading lady Brigitte Bardot's amateur detectivisms is a rattle-trap French dance hall run by a blackmailer, who unknown to Miss Bardot has got the drop on her husband. The husband, played by Henri Vidal, has just stormed into the establishment to try to get himself off the hook, when the black-mailer-owner is murdered. The inevitable "innocent bystandars," none of whom, as Miss Bardot later discovers in her quest for information on the crime, are particularly innocent, witness Vidal's entrance, call the police, and set off the fireworks...
Proposals for a "Peace Corps" of U.S. youth got a boost last weekend at a Princeton conference of students, educators, foundation and government officials. Establishing a steering committee, the conference urged President-elect Kennedy to set before Congress legislation concerning a youth service program, and called for research, in cooperation with foreign leaders, on those needs of newly developing countries which a U.S. youth corps could help meet...
There was a great deal of dispute before the conference decided upon a statement to represent it. One clause of the first resolution submitted for consideration empowered the steering committee to set up a "pilot project," probably under private rather than public auspices, which would send 100 to 200 students to one or more foreign conferences as soon as possible...
...Africa. "This is the last chance for de Gaulle," Aron asserted. "It is the final crisis for the Fifth Republic." Aron estimated that if de Gaulle is to continue in power, the Algerian solution must be effected early next year. He emphasized, however, that no specific deadline could be set for the settlement...
Loading the team to its third win in five games were Captain Charlie Rowe with two tries, Siniplsi Kavaliku, and David Bowles. Ten tries (six converted in all) accounted for the high score. Kavaliku set the tone for the game with the first try of the afternoon in a beautiful play originating from the scrum...