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Europe's most venerable U.S. newspaper observed its 75th anniversary in Paris last week-appropriately enough, at a special performance of the Comédie Française, the world's oldest theatrical troupe...
...Union may never become a true Common Market airline. Britain's BOAC and BEA have announced that they will not join even if Britain enters the Com mon Market. The Netherlands' KLM, which walked out of the negotiations three years ago in disgust over its allotted share of the revenues, now seems anxious to jump back in-but on its own terms. But even if only the present four lines join Air Union, their reduced costs will give them an advantage in competition with U.S. overseas airlines. This argument is sure to be made when...
Singapore will now get limited representation in the Malaysian Parliament in exchange for local control over labor and education policies (which it needs to curb Communist influence). By Aug. 31, 1963, the British-run territories of North Borneo, Sarawak and Brunei are to com plete the federation with Malaya and Singapore to form a 1.600-mile crescent around the South China...
...kept needling me." After filing a criminal assault report, which he later declined to press, Loew maintained that Miss Laurent's charms escaped him. "She has reddish hair," he said, "and I don't remember the color of her eyes. I'd like to forget her com pletely." "If you ask me if I have had a happy life, I must say no. I have had an extremely unhappy life." Withal, the unkind years have merely honed the battle-ax wit of England's oddball poetess Dame Edith Sitwell, who, upon turning 75, looked ahead...
...World War II was named director of a small fragment of the prewar Thyssen steel empire. Within ten years he had built it into Germany's second largest steel company - only to be booted out with $600,000 in severance pay when aris tocratic Frau Amelie Thyssen, the com pany's largest stockholder, decided that the brash Goergen was not her dish...