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...wears a winged beanie, whose force de frappe is not a nuclear bomb but a magic potion that contains-as a bow to the French palate-lobster. The whole nation has come to adore a comic-book hero whose name suggests a mere footnote to history. He is Astérix Le Gaulois, leader of a hilarious village of "unsubdued and irksome" Gauls still holding out against Caesar's legions...
Chuckles While Sipping. Astérix appears in a syndicated strip in 15 magazines, but his influence is vastly wider. The first French satellite launched into orbit was nicknamed Astérix. This year, French children are asking Père Noël for the Astérix costumes, dolls and masks that are being sold all over the country. Huge papier-mâché models of the little warrior and his blimpish, pigtailed companion Obélix stare down from Christmas displays in department stores. More than 3,600,000 copies of eight hard-cover Ast...
...AST week some quarter of a million people in the U.S. began L receiving a handsome new book. It is The World of Delacroix, second in a projected multivolume series called the Library of Art published by TIME-LIFE BOOKS. Since 1961, TIME-LIFE BOOKS has distributed a total of more than 50 million books in 13 languages, now ranks among the world's top ten book-publishing enterprises...
Meanwhile ABC, which closed the gap on the competition for the first time ast season, momentarily dropped out of contention again, primarily for riding too long with fading favorites. The network was caught with seven of the bottom 13 Nielsens, including the eight-year-old Donna Reed Show, 13-year-old Ozzie and Harriet. With the early-season tide running against the teen scene, the two segments of Shindig are being cancelled, and Ben Casey's slide to 73rd seemed to indicate that the doctor series are sickening unto death. Even ABC's Peyton Place may be past...
...seemed. Actually, in deepest secrecy, Rolls has been working on a new model for ten years. After spending $7,000,000 and employing 270 technicians, the firm displayed the result at ast week's Paris Auto Show: a new Rolls so thoroughly restyled that only the classic radiator grille, though lower and squarer, remains to recall the car's lineage. Rolls designers have chopped off 7 in. in length, 5 in. in height and 31 in. in width from the dimensions of the car's proud predecessor, the Silver Cloud. They have abandoned the old boxy profile...