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Coffin. Mauriac's antismoking campaign was inspired by Mayor Augustin Chauvet (who has not smoked in years) and gleefully promoted by ORTF, the state-run TV-radio network. To launch the crusade, a four-man team of psychologists and doctors held five days of meetings designed to wean the Mauriaquois from their smokes. At one gathering, Team Member Dr. Jean Pinet passed a miniature coffin around the audience. "Put your cigarettes in it," he exhorted, "or they'll put you in one." Other experts showed graphic films of the cancerous lungs of heavy smokers. The propaganda convinced many townspeople...
...with that of the other sex"). But at 41, she had a schizophrenic collapse. She spent the last two years of her life shuffling along the sidewalks of New York, imploring God to forgive her "wicked" life. She died at 43 after a stroke. "In the 18th century," wrote Augustin Thierry, "she would have played a great Pompadour role, with taste in small things and courage in big ones . . . She was born a hundred years too late." Or a hundred years too soon...
...Matthew Augustin, co-chairman of the first-year Business School Afro, said that the School's commitment to 67 black students does not meet the 12 per cent national figure. "The Business School," he added, "has a social obligation to take even more than 12 per cent...
...Augustin explained that Sloan Foundation money could be used to supplement the current number of fellowships in order to reach the 100 mark...
...another Curia official, Bishop Jan Willebrands, the brilliant Dutch prelate who long served the late Augustin Cardinal Bea in the Secretariat for Promoting Christian Unity, is among the new cardinals and will likely succeed Bea as head of the Secretariat in name as well as in fact. The selection of men like Willebrands may help mollify some Catholic liberals who had hoped to see a synod of bishops eventually take over the functions of the College of Cardinals-a development now hardly likely with the promotion of so many princes...