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Foch
French commander of Allied forces in World War I. He entered the artillery corps in 1873 and from 1885 periodically taught military strategy at the war college, becoming its commandant in 1908. After World War I broke out, he commanded an army detachment and planned the strategy that enabled J. Joffre to win the First Battle of the Marne. After commanding at the Battles of Ypres and the Somme, he was appointed chief of the general staff (1917), adviser to the Allied armies, and then commander in chief of all Allied armies (May 1918), in which capacity he prevailed in the battle of wills with E. Ludendorff. When Germany was forced to ask for an armistice, the conditions were dictated by now-Marshal Foch. Considered the leader most responsible for the Allied victory, he was showered with honors after the war, and was buried near Napoleon in the Invalides.


boccie
(from Italian bocce, "balls") Game of Italian origin, similar to bowls, played on a long, narrow, packed-clay court enclosed with boarded ends and sides. Each player or team in turn rolls four balls (made of wood, metal, or composition material) toward a smaller ball. The object is to bring one's ball nearer the small ball than an opponent's ball; one point is awarded for each such roll. The game usually ends at 12 points.


Bochco
U.S. television writer, director, and producer. Born in New York City, he worked as a scriptwriter and producer for Universal Studios (1966-78) and MTM Enterprises (1978-85) before forming his own production company in 1987. He cowrote and produced such successful television dramas as Hill Street Blues (1981-86), L.A. Law (1986-94), NYPD Blue (from 1993), and Murder One (1995-97), winning numerous Emmy awards for his scripts.


Bock
U.S. composer. Born in New Haven, Conn., he studied at the Univ. of Wisconsin, then collaborated with Larry Holofcener (b.1926) on songs for television's Your Show of Shows and the musical Mr. Wonderful (1956). With the composer-lyricist Sheldon Harnick (b.1924), he had his greatest successes, Fiorello! (1959, Pulitzer Prize) and Fiddler on the Roof (1964). Bock and Harnick's other musicals included The Body Beautiful (1958), Tenderloin (1960), the admired She Loves Me (1963), The Apple Tree (1966), and The Rothschilds (1966).


Bodin
French political philosopher. He studied and later taught law at the Univ. of Toulouse (1551-61). In 1571 he entered the household of Franç ois, duc d'Alenç on, the king's brother. He favored negotiation with the Huguenots, with whom the government was engaged in a civil war, and opposed the sale of royal domains. His Six livres de la ré publique (Six Books of the Republic, 1576) won him immediate fame. In it he suggested that the key to securing order and authority lay in recognition of the state's sovereignty, whose validity he did not believe depended on its subjects. He assumed that governments commanded ...

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