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...more than half the court's cases, and the Solicitor General is the Government's chief appellate lawyer, the court sees, hears and heeds him more than any other man Although he is paid only $28,500 a year as the Justice Department's third high est official (behind the Attorney General and his deputy) and does not even rate a Government car, he is beyond question the nation's most influential advocate at the high-court bench...
...meter race Saturday against the Russians," said the President, in a rare mood as he visited the National Sports Institute in Paris' Bois de Vincennes. "Of course, your 10,000-meter was not so good, but then you had that Russian Ivanov against you-et il est formidable." Strolling on, De Gaulle found himself unexpectedly staring up at France's national basketball team. "You and I certainly look at problems in the same manner," quipped the 6-ft. 4-in. general...
...knocked cold, conked by a flying Coke bottle, two others had minor injuries, 231 beatlenuts fainted, 94 got first aid, and five-months-pregnant Julia Stewart, wife of the Kingston Trio's John Stewart, was nearly trampled when she was jostled to the bedlam floor. C'est la guerre. Flying back to London, the shaggy O.B.E.s relaxed by counting the booty-well over $1,000,000 for a two-week tour in eight cities-and decided that, after all, war was swell...
...est Amusant!" This summer, nearly half a century later, Parade's great curtain, 33 ft. by 55 ft., dropped again, and again was greeted with delight. The occasion: a special festival performance of three ballets on which Picasso had worked, put on by the French provincial city of Toulouse to open an accompanying, summer-long exhibition in the Musée des Augustins of his costume designs, decors, sketches, curtains, and related paintings...
...focused exclusively on this aspect of Picasso's prodigious career. Mindful that "the biggest collector of Picassos is Picasso," Milhau sought an interview. Four months later he got in to see the painter-who turned out to be delighted with the idea: "Bon. D'accord. C'est amusant!" ("Good. All right. It's fun!"). The maestro scoured his scattered villas and selected 71 works, 63 of them never before exhibited. They ranged from a postage-stamp-sized cartoon to the 35 ft. by 55 ft. July 14th (Bastille Day) curtain commissioned by Paris' People...