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...morally educative fashion. His remarks provide a glimpse of the personal aims of his philosophical and psychological endeavor. "Not that I would not, if I could, be both handsome and fat and well dressed, and a great athlete, and make a million a year, be a wit, a bon-vivant, and a lady-killer, as well as a philosopher.... But the thing is simply impossible.... Such different characters may conceivably at the outset of life be alike possible to a man. But to make any one of them actual, the rest must more or less be suppressed. So the seeker...
...Bon. Ça Va." As part of his economic austerity program, Olympio had stubbornly refused to expand Togo's flyspeck army beyond its standing strength of 250 men-exactly one company. This angered both the "army" and the demobilized, hard-eyed Togolese veterans of French colonial wars, who had fought from Indo-China to Algeria but could find no place in their homeland's armed forces. Recently, a tough ex-sergeant, Emmanuel Bodjolle, 35, jobless and with a family to support, organized a conspiracy with 30 other noncoms. Last week, after Olympio tore up a final plea...
...Dallas, more than 1,000 people jammed a League of Women Voters luncheon, sent 250 questions to the head table to be answered by Texas' gubernatorial candidates. In Waukegan, Ill., 400 Democrats gathered around a roaring bon fire at a party rally. In Amherst, Mass., on a miserable, stormy night, nearly 1,000 packed the high school auditorium to hear political speeches. In Atlanta, a group of wealthy citizens met at a candlelight buffet dinner with a Republican candidate for Congress. When he was through speaking, a woman put the question that seems most on America's mind...
...Ludwig Bemelmans. 64, bubbly, urbane caricaturist whose lighthearted paintings and gently satirical books delighted adults and children alike; of cancer of the pancreas; in Manhattan. Son of a Belgian painter and a Bavarian brewer's daughter. Bemelmans worked as a hotel waiter, opened his own restaurant, became a bon vivant and peopled his books and canvases with epileptic Ecuadorian generals, French jewel thieves. American ladies in feather boas, and a Parisian moppet named Madeline. "The purpose of art," he once said, "is to console and amuse-myself, and, I hope, others...
...still trying to decide how much of this was for the birds and how-much was not. New York Supreme Court Justice Arthur G. Klein had yet to issue a ruling in the case. But with the affidavits and counter affidavits piling up, it seemed likely that the Bon Ami chick would be wriggling uncomfortably in the public eye for some time to come...