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...public town-hall ceremony and a religious service, the megamillion merger was to be toasted by the pick of tout Paris, many of them brought to the baronne's cháteau by special train. Solving such problems as whether to serve Pol Roger or Moët et Chandon (solution: serve both) and the arrangement of bushels of country flowers was at least as exhausting as Mayor de Rothschild's more commonplace concerns, such as the town's road repair. At the end of it all, she said distractedly, there may be "plus de maire et...
...apologize for responding so promptly to your Essay "The Fine Art of Putting Things Off." One reality that must be propounded is that only those of us loners (freelance writers, artists, commission salesmen, et al.) are entitled to claim it as an art or skill. For us, risk is involved. We gamble our livelihood against losing work or sales. For people on a salary, it is simply called dishonesty...
Rodino's strategy has been to try to impress all factions of his committee with the thoroughness and fairness of the staff work. Southern Democrats, under some political pressure from home to back Nixon, have been relatively qui et so far, but many are leaning toward impeachment because of the staffs factual presentation of evidence. The committee last week spent a day on the illegal secret bombing of Cambodia, mainly to mollify the more liberal Democrats, even though that issue can scarcely gain widespread support as a separate impeachment article...
...Ellison received the Medal of Freedom--the nation's highest civilian honor--from President Johnson. He has collected a number of other honoraria, including the Chevalier de l'Ordre Arts et Letters of France, honorary degrees from eight institutions, and several fellowships...
...holder of a master's degree in biochemistry, Davis contended that improper diet is the cause of a broad gamut of diseases as well as such social afflictions as crime, mental illness and drug abuse. In four bestselling volumes (Let's Eat Right to Keep Fit, et al.), she urged readers to shun refined grains and packaged foods, eat organically grown fruits and vegetables, unprocessed cheese and fertilized eggs, and take large doses of vitamins as a chaser. She came under fire from scientific critics who often agreed with her nutritional dicta but felt she oversimplified the etiology...