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...politics all year long. In 1943, Ibero-American University, a private school closely linked to the Roman Catholic Church, was founded in Mexico. Others followed: Brazil's Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, and Ecuador's Catholic University in Quito, both in 1946; and Venezuela's Andrés Bello...
...France: André Gros, 55, top legal adviser to his nation's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, representative of France at many international conferences...
...Frontier. In Montreal last week to reveal to Quebec the full extent of its spiritual and material inheritance were Minister of State for Cultural Affairs André Malraux and 130 top French businessmen and officials. The occasion: a $1,000,000 science-and-industry Exposition Française, the biggest business fair ever held in Montreal. Besides showing off everything from surgical instruments to a subway car, France sent along spectacular displays of 10,000 flowers from the Côte d'Azur, 30 tapestries and an exhibition of recent French...
...owes its very existence, says Professor André Bataille, director of the institute, to the fact that during the 2nd and 3rd centuries B.C. wood was too expensive to be used in mummy cases for average Egyptians. As a result, funeral directors enclosed corpses in waste papyrus manuscripts coated with plaster and molded to a shape vaguely reminiscent of a human body...
...some place that, unlike France's many one-man museums, would be widely known and easily accessible. This was also the dream of his daughter ("my little dove") Isabelle, who has devoted her life to her father's work. A few weeks ago Minister of Culture André Malraux told her of the museum plan and Rouault's big place in it. Isabelle got her mother, brother, sisters, nieces and nephews to agree to the gift, biggest ever made to a state by the heirs of an artist...