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...same evening, De Gaulle watched himself, seemingly vigorous as ever, calling the U.S. an "uncertain" ally and proclaiming once more France's need for an independent nuclear deterrent and its own costly program of foreign aid to underdeveloped nations. Then, with Madame de Gaulle, he was driven without escort through the dark and rain-washed streets of Paris to the hospital...
...runway. With him, as they had been on the flight down, were his wife and daughters. As the planes went they weaved in and out among one another, making it almost impossible to tell which plane was Johnson's. Aloft, the 707s picked up the same mighty escort...
...Winnie had the money to attract -and buy-an entourage. Her consort was the bogus prince, "Nicky" Sturdza, who was flat broke when he met Winnie at a Paris cocktail party in 1950. She hired him as her escort at $1,000 a month, had his crown and her initials engraved on her handbags, and since he had a flair for designing clothes, Winnie set him up in the Boutique Nicky on Paris' fashionable Faubourg St.-Honor...
...cheery just by standing on his head to whistle. Sydney Chaplin has a cheerlessly unwritten part as Nicky Arnstein, the gambler and jailbird whom Fanny loves, marries, overmanages, and loses. It scarcely helps that Chaplin lackadaisically stands around in a tuxedo most of the evening looking like a rented escort at the wrong address...
...said to think that women lower the tone of conversation in the dining halls. Whatever tiny grain of truth this view holds grows tinier by the day. Both the girls and the Houses would benefit from a more natural and relaxed situation--say, interhouse dining every night, without the "escort" provision. Still, what the HCUA proposes would be a vast improvement. By accepting it, the Masters would acknowledge that Harvard and Radcliffe students are equal members of an intellectual community...