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...huge undertaking, but last week New York's Metropolitan Museum proved it was equal to the task. It triumphantly opened a set of new galleries that allow the museum to display the full riches of its 19th century collection. Built with a $2.5 million gift from the late André Meyer, an investment banker and longtime trustee, the galleries supply more than half an acre of floor space, topped by a vast glass-gridded ceiling that extends, free of supports, over the whole area. The galleries are part of the new southern wing, designed by Kevin Roche/John Dinkeloo...
Both sides were relying heavily on the skill and shrewdness of the five distinguished U.N. envoys. Much care had gone into choosing them: former Venezuelan Ambassador to the U.S. and U.N. Andrés Aguilar Mawdsley, Algerian Chief U.N. Delegate Mohammed Bedjaoui, Syrian Career Diplomat Adib Daoudy, Sri Lankan Lawyer Hector W. ("Harry") Jayawardene, and French Human Rights Activist Louis-Edmond Pettiti...
...Chairman Andrés Aguilar Mawdsley, 55, chief counsel for Venezuela's state oil company, is a bon vivant who loves Caribbean music but is also an eloquent spokesman for democracy. Son of a professional diplomat, Aguilar earned a law degree from McGill University in Canada and a doctorate in political science from Venezuela's Central University, where he taught civil law and was law school dean in the 1950s. He suffered a painful lesson in political repression in 1956 when he was imprisoned for opposing General Marcos Péréz Jiménez. After...
...DIED. André Dubonnet, 82, French aperitif heir, sportsman and inventor; of cancer; near Paris. The bon vivant son of Joseph Dubonnet, founder of the liqueur-making firm, André was an archetype of the moneyed adventurer, equally absorbed with beautiful women (he married four) and the high-speed excitement he sought as a World War I aviator, 1924 Olympic bobsledder and car racer. Besides driving for Hispano-Suiza and Bugatti in the 1920s, he funneled his fortune into various innovations, including a novel suspension system he sold to General Motors. In the 1960s, after the Dubonnet company merged with...