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...years since he became president of the World Bank, rangy Eugene Black, 64, has capitalized on a unique blend of financial acuteness and infectious Southern charm to borrow some $2 billion from private investors and relend it to backward nations for carefully chosen investment projects. In the process, the international financial community has come to think of the World Bank (official title: the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development) as "Gene Black's bank." This week, with Black close to the mandatory retirement age, the bank's 18 executive directors will name a new boss for Gene Black...
Indeed, critics say that all of his buildings resemble each other: precast concrete with graceful curves and lacelike designs, a box-shaped podium for a base, and, inevitably, surrounding gardens that blend with the building. He has reshaped the Motor City's skyline so much that many feel historians will refer to the 1960s as "The Yamasaki Era in Detroit...
...system by which his successor would be elected directly by the people (TIME, Sept. 21). Though De Gaulle's proposal would short-circuit the constitution and has already enraged politicians of all parties, his grandiloquent dialogue between "you Frenchmen and Frenchwomen and my self" only heightened the curious blend of awe, irritation and amusement with which most Frenchmen today regard their President. Through endless anecdotes, his mordant wit and sovereign self-assurance have become as firmly lodged in the French imagination as Cyrano's nose...
...murderer: "A line of heavy men in soft hats walking cumbrously on tiptoe; only the Assistant Commissioner at the tail of the procession walked with natural lightness, all the useless flesh burned away by fever." In that ridiculous and wonderful fever, Greene's genius and fudge blend inextricably-each necessary, both unmatchable...
...form a more perfect union, Stanford this week opened its $2.6 million Tresidder Memorial Union, a handsome hacienda that does wonders for the university's architecture, which is mostly a blend of Early Southern Pacific and Neo-Romanesque. "Our motto is coffee and culture," glows Director Chester A. Berry, 46. Just for a start. Berry will soon launch "Project Da Vinci"-stuffing Tresidder with Leonardo's notebooks, reproductions of his sketches and 35 working models of his inventions...