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...much too long, Cambodian Chief of State Norodom Sihanouk fretted over the addiction of his "petit peuple" to gambling. All his antigambling laws -and regular police crackdowns on Pnompenh's 40-odd illegal houses of chance-had no effect. Cambodians and the equally avid Chinese and Vietnamese residents in the capital continued to gamble their riels away. Profits to the illicit houses were put at about $20 million a year...
Mature Mail. Riklis's own managers have already learned how to live with the boss's engaging eccentricities. Chairman Riklis, whose salary came to $379,000 last year, has developed an avid taste for Postimpressionist art; Rapid's mid-Manhattan offices are filled with Fernand Legers, Francis Bacons, Roy Lichtensteins...
...Right away, any program that Harvard Medical School undertakes has a certain audience," Pollack said. When the plan was announced last November, it made front-page news all over the country. Since then, requests from medical planners have poured into Pollack's office. "There is an avid national interest in the plan," Pollack said last week. "We have already received many inquiries; I've already talked with several people interested in following ht model...
...French had offered Britain a new chance to demonstrate a firm commitment to Europe, only to have their overture rejected. Furiously, Whitehall put its side of the story on record. At a luncheon in Paris on Feb. 4 with Britain's Ambassador to France, Christopher Soames, an avid pro-European who is Winston Churchill's son-in-law, De Gaulle-according to the British account-proposed that the two countries should have a summit meeting to talk over replacing the Common Market with a larger economic association run by a four-power inner directorate of Britain, France, West...
Aiming for the classic genre, Director Robert Mulligan occasionally misfires. But he is saved, somewhat surprisingly, by Peck, who is in private life an avid collector of Lincoln memorabilia. With flashes of ironic humor and his customary rigid dignity, he escapes the boundaries of the role and gives it an honest, Abe-like stature. The rest of the cast is resolutely unglamorous; even Saint has the hollow eyes and concave face of a woman who has been out on the plains too long...