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...largely because of what an adman calls "the cutting edge of Jamie's voice." All four singers deliver their words with the sort of enunciation that makes poets out of admen. "Their words seem to be coming from a foot outside of their mouths in a kind of bas-relief," says one such poet...
...Machines Bull, a group of financiers who had been called upon to save the French giant from losses and the prospect of nationalization selected Banker Roger Schulz, 44, to be boss. A director of the Banque de Paris et des Pays-Bas, rugged and athletic Schulz has specialized in reviving comatose companies. Bull, the Continent's largest computer maker (1962 sales: $69 million) was gored by IBM and others when it tried to expand its line of small computers by building bigger models. The previous president, Joseph Callies, left under pressure after the French government vetoed his plan...
...frappe probably will not be operative until 1967, Charles de Gaulle is the only allied leader who is flatly opposed to MLF. But De Gaulle's nuclear nationalism faces mounting criticism in France: last week in the Paris suburb of Sceaux, a sea of demonstrators shouting "A bas la bombe!" rose in flat opposition to the French nuclear force...
...reach into the future and old enough to recall the past. Artist Boris Chaliapin reached into the past for the background of his cover painting; but in a way, it does not seem so different from the never-never land of Southeast Asia today. It is from a bas-relief in the ancient ruins of Angkor Wat, and it shows gods and demons pulling on a ropelike serpent in an effort to draw the liquid of immortality from the churning Sea of Milk...
Nothing in this newborn star quite conforms to the clichés of stardom. Her profile might have come from an ancient bas-relief found in the valley of the Nile, but her tongue is asphalt-coated in the speech patterns of Manhattan's Lower East Side. Her voice is too nasal to be winningly melodic, but she uses it like a jazz instrument, improvising a jumping rhetoric of sound. She can bring a song phrase to a growling halt, or let it drift lyrically like a ribbon of smoke. Her lyrics seem not to have been learned...