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...toward the imperial city, the seat of Viet Nam's government and a center of its learning during the 19th century. There stood the palace complex, with its graceful red and gold buildings and pagoda roofing, its grounds of tall shade trees and frangipani, and its collections of bleu d'Hué porcelain. It was the most beautiful section of Hué still standing. It was also an eerie place to die, and its Communist defenders evidently decided to get out while they could. They left behind an unexploded shell near the fragile imperial throne, a cache...
Organized by Marcel Landowski, music director of Andre Malraux's Ministry of Culture, the Orchestre de Paris chose its members as a cordon bleu chef would select truffles. All are conservatory prizewinners, including Bulgarian-born Lubin Yordanoff, 41, who left his first chair in the Monte Carlo National Orchestra to join the Paris group as concertmaster. Fifty-two of its members are from the recently disbanded Paris Conservatory Orchestra, an above-average ensemble in its day. The salary range, high for Paris, runs from $620 to $820 a month, counterbalanced by an exclusivity clause in each contract forbidding...
...Marthe de la Rochefoucauld, 28, and Mademoiselle Claude de Clermont-Tonnerre, 24. Says Marthe: "The idea came to me when I was in New York and heard Americans complain about the difficulties - and the coldness - they found in France." She recruited her cousin Claude and a dozen other sang-bleu friends to provide chic and cheery guidance for foreigners in Paris...
...bomb his family, he simply got an unlisted number; federal agents have periodically guarded his comfortable ranch house ever since. He keeps a current file on all active Alabama Klansmen. Asked whether his wires are tapped, Johnson lights up another Home Run cigarette (a brand that makes Gauloises seem bleu by comparison) and noncommittally drawls: "I've made a studied effort to avoid areas of paranoia...
...Dione Lucas, 57, considered the doyenne of fine cuisine in America. Trained at the Cordon Bleu in Paris, she opened a Manhattan branch in 1941, wrote The Cordon Bleu Cook Book, and was one of the pioneer TV chefs in 1947. Her specialty was omelets, and for a while she held forth at her own restaurant, the Egg Basket; now she fills in by doing the cooking at the Ginger Man, a fashionable pub near Lincoln Center...