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...Claire's Knee, Jerome (Jean-Claude Brialy), a 35-year-old diplomat, is about to marry his longtime inamorata. Before the wedding he makes a nostalgic trip to provincial Annecy, where he spent his boyhood holidays. There he meets an old friend, Novelist Aurora (Aurora Cornu) and two jeunes filles en fleur, Laura (Beatrice Romand) and Claire (Laurence de Monaghan...
Thomas W. Cornu, president of the Committee, stated that funds would be unavailable to cover the increased costs of a late start, because a Federal Housing Administration (FHA) grant is contingent on the site being clear the first week of November. The contractor who wil build the project, Chester V. Vappi, testified that a delay would involve prohibitive cost increases...
Which Way Up? Certainly, the cornu-copic U.S. economy could start surging in a hurry. But what sector would lead it upward? Here are some possibilities being talked about by Kennedy's advisers : INVENTORY SPENDING. Walter Heller, chief of the President's Council of Economic Advisers, figures that the current rate of trade and manufacturing sales would justify a further $3 billion rise in inventories this year. But Heller appears to be ignoring the fact that businessmen are operating with much leaner inventories than in times past. Computers permit them to schedule stocks more closely...
Attired in his morning coat, Attorney General Charles Cornu, 70, rose for his final summation against the defendant, in whose home he had been a frequent guest. Cornu first explained haltingly that he had not really been Jaccoud's "friend," and that their relationship had always been "professional." Looking at the emaciated defendant, Cornu then charged that "this charming, intelligent, celebrated lawyer, this great man of politics, was an abject criminal who shot and stabbed a defenseless...
Last week, with his first year's billion francs on hand, Secretary Cornu had platoons of workmen swarming over the palace on the first big job: laying watertight new lead plate on 27 acres of leaky roofs. During the next two years the interior will reconditioned and repaired, and Versailles will begin to display its old glories to the 700,000 or more visitors who roam its ornate halls every year...