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Usually he is alone, brooding over the collapse of his financial empire (TIME, June 22) in the aftermath of Wall Street's Blue Monday skid. But last week Eddy had a companion-handsome, French-born Olivier Coquelin, 32. Coquelin is the manager of a Manhattan cafè society watering spot called Le Club, where Eddy, bedazzled by a "board of governors" that includes Noel Coward, Rex Harrison and the Duke of Bedford, was an eager member. Said the loyal Olivier: "I have come to see zat Eddee does not go to zee dogs...
...California, only 30 of the 3,000 shacks, homes, cafés, rock museums, orchards and summer camps had a right to their place in the nation's woodlands. In Idaho, two squatters' towns rested near the nudist camp. In Washington, another squatters' town was defiantly if quaintly called Liberty...
...wild, mountainous Asturias coal country of northern Spain, thousands of miners trooped back to work last week. But in many a town, the cafés and shabby little restaurants were still full of dark, rugged men who stubbornly refused to return to the pits. There were still no demonstrations, no agitation, no violence in this biggest strike wave to sweep through Spain in the 24 years of Dictator Francisco Franco's rule...
...When the government proposed boosting the tax on the awnings of sidewalk cafés from 60∧ a square yard to $25, café owners threatened to strike, coffee lovers raised a howl, and the Confederation of Commerce and Tourism dispatched an official delegation to the Finance Minister, a Christian Democrat. Result: the tax on shade was raised to only...
...anniversary, five other reigning monarchs and a pride of princes trooped to The Netherlands. In a three-day round of banquets, balls and royal rubbernecking that left even the doughty Dutch amazed at their red-blooded stamina, the bluebloods seemed less of an anachronism-and considerably more attractive-than café society at play...