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With André Malraux, France's Minister of Culture, adoration of art knows no bounds. He has put Marc Chagall's lovers on the ceiling of the Paris Opéra, Maillol bronzes in the Tuileries gardens, Masson's abstracts in the dome of the Comédie Française. He has washed the face of Paris from a dingy grey to honey-colored sandstone, and his art history, Voices of Silence, was a monument to a world he saw as "a museum without walls...
Well, not entirely, Leo. The dome may be an elaborate Bronx cheer for visitors, and it is true the Astros do considerably better at home (25 wins in 40 games v. 14 of 35 on the road this year). It is truer still that while the Mets set out to draw crowds with familiar-and fading-names, the Astros are starting to cash in on the richest crop of youthful talent in the majors...
...city depot were piled one atop the other like crushed ants. At the airport, 15 light planes lay scattered, stamped flat. Though the state capital lay outside the storm's path, the pressure shattered windows and smashed a hole the size of a locomotive in the dome. Total damage: at least $100 million...
...like Rome, is built on seven hills, and to Ugandans each has its special significance. But none is so important as Mengo Hill, where a rambling brick palace on the peak is an object of universal awe. Not even the British dared violate its sanctity, for beneath its silver dome lived the Kabaka (ruler) of Buganda, largest and richest of Uganda's five ancient kingdoms. Buganda's rulers were so powerful in colonial days that they were always granted considerable autonomy by the British. Cambridge-educated Sir Edward F. W. Walugembe Mutebi Luwangula ("Freddy") Mutesa II, who succeeded...
Died. Paul Derval, 85, director of the Folies-Bergère for 47 years, whose Paris pleasure dome introduced to the world such stars as Maurice Chevalier and Fernandel, but was most famed for tableaux of statuesque girls in scanty costumes pasteurized enough for the tourist family trade without losing all the spice of Gallic life; of a pulmonary edema; in Paris...