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...tourists. Illiers is, in most respects, an unremarkable French village. One thing sets it apart-it was here that Marcel Proust whiled away the timeless summer days of his childhood. Later, he immortalized the town under the fictional name of Combray in his monumental novel, A la Recherche du Temps Perdu (Remembrance of Things Past). Relatively untouched by the modern age, as if it has been locked up for safekeeping against time in the pages of Proust's books, the town renamed itself llliers-Combray this year to honor the author and the centennial of his birth on July...
...sense. "O Allah O Shango (rulers of our ancient cities) O Osiris, we will be closer to you from now on,'' he cries. Elsewhere he declares, "Do not talk Marx or Lenin or Trotsky when you speak of political thinkers. Abdel Rahman, Nkrumah, Sekoti Touré, Mao, Du-Bois, Fanon, Nyerere, Garvey, Lumumba, Malcolm, Guevara, Elijah, Abu Dekr will plot, have already plotted...
Adolf Hitler's mistress was a pudgy, middle-class blonde who gloomed more than she glittered. Yet her name will go down in history alongside such famous and glamorous kept women as Lola Montez, Madame de Pompadour, Nell Gwyn and the Du Barry. How did she manage to catch der Führer's eye and remain with him until their joint suicide in the Berlin Reich chancellery? Photographs from Eva Braun's personal album, published in the London Sunday Times magazine last week, give few new clues to her mysterious charms. The collection shows Eva riding...
...Government are bent on forcing tough reforms. The Federal Trade Commission in particular has been working inventively to root out deceptive ads. In a variety of actions it has challenged some advertising of giant companies including Coca-Cola, ITT, Continental Baking, Standard Oil of California, Du Pont, Mattel and MacDonald's hamburger chain. In response, ad agencies and their clients are now taking their most serious step yet toward self-regulation...
Perot has not ruled out the idea of buying into other Wall Street houses, though he has no definite plans for doing so. The computer wizard is convinced that his investment will pay off not only for Du Pont but also for his own company. Though brokerages have spent millions on computer technology, he believes few of them are using it wisely. Perot intends to make Du Pont a model operation. "Just imagine the impact when E.D.S. turns Du Pont around," he exults. "It will mean plenty of business for us because we will have dramatically proved to the financial...