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Your dreams oj independent power, And dear old Konrad Adenauer, And stick them up your Eiffel Tower...
...Americans, going to college in Paris has traditionally assayed high in romance (a garret out of La Boheme, professorial brilliance in a drafty Sorbonne classroom) and low on education (the French was hard to follow, the credits usually nontransferable). Last week, in the shadow of the Eiffel Tower, a school opened to provide both Parisian culture and American credits...
Seattle's legacy will include most of the fair's most dramatic buildings. There is the Space Needle, typifying the theme of "the world of Century 21''; a sort of Eiffel Tower dipped in concrete, its sheaf-of-wheat shape rises 608 ft. and makes it the tallest structure west of the Mississippi. The 3½-acre Washington State Coliseum, blessedly free of interior supports and decorative gimmicks, not only serves as one of the fair's chief display areas, but will be used later for sports events (capacity: 20,000) and, Seattle hopes, national...
...Soho Café. Yet he was never a stranger to London. The Soho restaurant called the Eiffel Tower knew his booming voice and august figure as well as it knew his colorful companions: Max Beerbohm, Tallulah Bankhead, Wyndham Lewis, the young Prince of Wales. In Ireland he spent his time with W. B. Yeats; in Paris he sought out James Joyce; in London he came to know Shaw, Wilde and Aldous Huxley. To women he was irresistible. It was said the female sitters would sometimes strip off their clothes without John's either asking or wanting them to. When...
...Twentieth Century (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). Emperor Franz Joseph, Czar Nicholas II, Edward VII, Kaiser Wilhelm, Alexandre Eiffel, Wilbur Wright, Leo Tolstoy, Mrs. Dreyfus and Emile Zola are all on view in "The Turn of the Century." Repeat...