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Noisy leftist protests followed. Three Bruay citizens, including Jean-Pierre, staged a three-day hunger strike. But for a growing number of Frenchmen, the Bruay affair was beginning to look like a left-wing version of the Dreyfus case. Was Leroy being railroaded, they asked, because of his social position...
Pleading for acquittal, PolnarefFs lawyer, Gilles Dreyfus, argued that decency was not definable. "Decency varies from one era to another, from one place to another," he said. "A bare-bosomed woman on the beach at St. Tropez is not shocking or indecent in 1972. But she would be even today in front of Notre Dame cathedral." After taking two weeks to consider his verdict, Judge Taillandier last week had the tail-end word. He fined Polnareff $12,000 ($2 a poster), his record company, which had paid for the posters, $12,000, and his pressagent, who had conceived the stunt...
Still the artist's interest in his community has always been primary. In 1896 the famous Dreyfus case in France brought support from all the avant-garde artists of the time and caused Monet to sign a protest--the one overt political act of his life. George Orwell pointed out that when his works lacked political purpose they were lifeless. When great moral issues enter the world arena, artists react as a group as do other members of the community. In reaction to the Fascists in World War II, artists held shows of protest. The artist's subject matter...
...grain firms are privately owned, and their officers have an understandable preference for secrecy as they play their complicated game against alert, swift competitors. Six firms account for 90% of U.S. grain exports, including Memphis-based Cook Co., Argentine headquartered Bunge Corp., Swiss-owned Garnac and French-controlled Louis Dreyfus Corp. The two giants, which share half the world's grain shipments, are Cargill Inc. of Minneapolis...
Chicken-or-Egg. The industry is also experimenting with other new marketing techniques. Boston's Keystone Custodian Funds, Inc. has built up a force of 500 salesmen to sell a combined package of mutual-fund shares and life insurance plans. In February, Dreyfus Corp. started a new fund with a scaled-down commission rate that is being sold as a payroll-deduction plan to companies, unions and trade associations. The industry's trade association, the Investment Company Institute, is conducting a $400,000 advertising campaign in newspapers and magazines, designed to convince the public that, for example...