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Piling Up Trouble. Citroën has long been heading toward a classic industrial disaster. Founded by a flamboyant Parisian named Andre Citroën in 1919, the company has been controlled for the past 30 years by the Michelins, who generally consider autos an adjunct to their profitable tire business. Citroën's two basic models, the tinny, 20-year-old 2 CV and the 13-year-old, bullet-nose DS, were highly successful in the 1950s and early 1960s, when automanic Frenchmen would wait months for a car. That situation no longer exists, but Pierre Bercot...
...appointment of non-salaried "Adjunct Professors or Tutors in African Studies." These would be "scholars at universities or institutions in the area," and would be asked to join the Harvard staff for a year or two to give tutorials or direct Independent Studies for a year...
Combat photography has become almost a commonplace, an adjunct to the 6 o'clock news and weather. A Face of War, though, has a rightful claim to be judged as art: it is a documentary in the great tradition begun by Civil War Photographer Matthew B. Brady when he took his cumbersome cameras to Virginia in 1861. The film's producer-director is Eugene S. Jones, a veteran television cameraman who fought with the Marines during World War II. He spent 97 days with a company of Marines in the heartland of Viet Nam. In the course...
...three have full-scale curriculums leading to bachelor's and master's degrees, professional-level studios, sophisticated faculty guidance. At U.S.C., for example, resident teachers of the school's 350 cinema majors include Hollywood Directors King Vidor and Norman Taurog, while Jerry Lewis is an "adjunct professor." U.C.L.A., which has an enrollment of over 300, is about to complete a $2,500,000 film-production center, including several tons of first-quality equipment purchased at an auction from the old Hal Roach Studios. Twenty-five hundred miles away, the N.Y.U. film school (enrollment: 250) lacks the advantages...
...parties cannot assume that they have certain basic legal rights assured, Fairbank writes. He continues: "Consequently, when we urge negotiations upon Hanoi, we are not aware of the lower valuation put upon the word in their tradition." Negotiation is viewed, Fairbank explained, as an alternative or even an adjunct to the use of force in conflict resolution...