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...week, plans were under way for a 52-story skyscraper on the site of the old railroad station, Gare Montparnasse. As a gesture to the bohemians of Montparnasse, the promoters promised, in addition to a 1,000-room hotel, a shopping center and three floors of parking space, to erect 25 acres of artists' studios. The only question was what kind of art could be produced in the atmosphere of a Left Bank Rockefeller Center. General de Gaulle's artistic czar, Andre Malraux, Minister of State in charge of cultural affairs, gave his approval to the skyscraper...
...been four "long and tough" years, Grivas told a TIME correspondent last week. "I am very tired." But he stood erect as he talked in his second-floor apartment at the foot of the Acropolis...
...obvious answer would be to erect barriers around the canals, but barriers low enough to avoid spoiling the view would be too low to keep cars out. Last week the Royal Dutch Association for Assistance to Drowning Persons had a new idea: it began giving free lessons in how to escape from a sunken...
...Communists. Economics Minister Ibrahim Kubba and Finance Minister Mohammed Hadid stayed on in their posts. They were the very same officials who last week negotiated important trade agreements with Communist Rumania and Bulgaria, and reached a preliminary agreement for a "vast" Soviet program to supply technical aid and erect 20 industrial projects over the years, not with Soviet funds but with Iraq's sizable profits from its British-run oil wells...
Called Ella by her intimates, the princess made occasional short visits to Italy, where her former subjects searched for adjectives to describe the tall (5 ft. 11 in.) doe-eyed beauty who speaks five languages, rides, sings, plays the guitar, walks regally erect and smiles like a queen. "A charming princess," raved the weekly Séttimo Giorno. "One of the loveliest girls of royal blood," mooned Rome's Il Messaggero. "Last summer at the pool at Gstaad, everyone agreed she had the most beautiful royal legs in Europe." Gushed a reporter: "With those eyes and that long chestnut...