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Meanwhile, Giscard has repaired to his château near the Loire Valley town of Authon, in possible imitation of Charles de Gaulle, who spent twelve years in his country house before returning to power in 1958. Giscard plans to start work on his memoirs while awaiting the anguished call that he believes will inevitably come after Mitterrand-as he foresees it-has crippled France's economy and its political institutions. "In my Loire Valley retreat," Giscard had mused bitterly in a pre-election allusion to his possible defeat, "I will be the most popular man in France...
...year her father designed his now famous dove for the Communist World Peace Congress (her name is Spanish for dove), Paloma, 31, is now recognized for her own international body. This year she was named to the International Best-Dressed list. But at the opening of a display of Ch'ing dynasty costumes at New York's Metropolitan Museum, she revealed more than an acquired palate. As she made her entrance, Paloma artfully arranged her dress to accent the family lines. Her décolletage caused almost as many tuts as a noted recent exhibition, but Paloma...
...gift was the ability to create characters so vital that they seemed to leap from the page: the ebullient Gigi, skipping through the Tuileries; the elegant and doomed Chéri, in love with a woman twice his age; and Lea, archetype of the older woman, wise, but not yet wizened by age and experience. But Colette's greatest invention was Colette, the country girl who conquered Paris and captured life itself...
...Angeles at New Orleans, ch...
...Algerian government plans to expand the tent city to house the crowded survivors for three or four months until prefabricated housing can be erected. Meanwhile, the city itself is to be sealed off and leveled to the ground. Surviving residents surveyed their demolished homes and wondered if the fertile Chéliff River valley town was even worth rebuilding. Said one young man:"I had heard people talk about the 1954 earthquake. But I could never imagine this. I think we should find another place...