Word: au
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...said of her overnight stay in stir: "When you think that the best people in this country are now in jail, I didn't mind it at all." For Dewi Sukarno, 30, widow of the late President Sukarno of Indonesia, it was a helping hand at the pot-au-feu from Public Relations Man Jean-Claude Dauzonne in Paris. On a shopping spree in Rome, Dutch Actress Talitha Pol was glad to lean on the arm-not to mention the banknotes presumably stuffed in the shoulder bag-of Husband Eugene Paul Getty, son of the oil billionaire...
Globe Editor Winship supplies a Boston view of the two: "It's a little unfair to compare them. They seem to have a different mission. Harper's is very lively and au courant. It's even going a bit kinky. The Atlantic still retains its heritage of civility, literary writing and careful reporting." Adds Ward Just, who has written for both magazines: "Manning hasn't sacrificed durable quality for the passions of the moment. He is not afraid to be dull at times...
...couples have taken over thousands of domestic servants' jobs in Britain. According to one jaundiced Londoner, "they maintain an excellent intelligence service among themselves, and are adept at squeezing out salary increases by threatening to leave and go to a hated neighbor." Adds the same party snidely: "The au pair girls have a tendency to become pregnant or fall in love with their employers-sometimes both. But they have become an indispensable part of the British way of upper-middle-class life...
...take a bow" in the ring [March 30]. Oh yes? And just who asked me to? Though I am now a person of such magnitude as to have appeared two consecutive months in your PEOPLE section, you should know that Thai fight fans aren't all that au coumnt about who is "in" this year, particularly among American-Jewish novelists, whom T believe they find inscrutable...
...Politics in Exile. One person who has no future in peacetime Nigeria, or perhaps anywhere in Africa, is Ojukwu. After he fled the country, reports placed him in Lisbon, Paris, Geneva, Lusaka, Dar es Salaam, Libreville, São Tomé and Port-au-Prince. According to the story that emerged last week, Ojukwu was flown out of Uli to Abidjan, capital of the Ivory Coast. At the Abidjan airport, he transferred to an executive jet belonging to Ivory Coast President Felix Houphouet-Boigny and was flown 250 miles to the President's summer palace at Yamoussoukro, which...