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Flinty old John Diefenbaker, 71, likes to parry any suggestion that he should step down as leader of Canada's Progressive Conservative Party with a Churchillian thrust: "I'm not going till the pub closes." Last week, as the party gathered in Ottawa's Chateau Laurier for its regular convention, Tory dissidents were trying their best to close...
Sotheby's rival in London, Christie's, began its 200th season with sales of old wines and steam engine and ship models. The exquisite toys brought $1 15,556 in a day; a bottle of Chateau Pichon-Longueville 1878 brought more than $5 a glass. In such a heady atmosphere, Christie's now expects that Peter Paul Rubens' The Judgment of Paris, which they first appraised as a $280 copy by Lankrink (TIME, Sept. 16), will top $225,000 when it goes on the block next month. Another newly discovered Rubens, an oil sketch...
...French nobility. It would be a sound idea to embody and run the state from one place, where he could keep his royal eye on the great nobles. Actually, the idea seems to have been suggested by the ambitions of the Minister of Finance, Nicolas Fouquet, who, at his chateau of Vaux-le Vicomte was unwise enough to out-status the King with "the insolent and audacious luxury" of a house-warming for 6,000 people. With "mingled admiration and fury," the King banished Fouquet to a fortress and decided to outbuild everyone in the known world. Thus...
...Chateau Louise, near Dundee, III. Prime rib is sold by the inch: $3.95 for a half-inch, $4.95 for one inch, and $6.95 for two. One room duplicates a 14th century wine cellar...
Even people who don't give a single thought to double-entendres flinch these days when a sultry woman flips onto their TV screens to ask coyly: "Had any lately?" What she wants to know is whether the viewer has had any Chateau Martin champagne, vermouth or wine. Chateau Martin's eight-week-old question is also being asked on radio, bus and subway posters, in magazine ads and on lapel buttons. Crestwood Advertising, Inc., which designed the campaign, credits it with a 48% increase in Chateau Martin sales...