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Parisians, who think of their city as a paradigm of enlightened hedonism, do not quite know what to make of a gaudy new encampment in their midst. It is called the Hotel Nova-Park Elysées. Its Second Empire façade is festooned with flamingo-pink awnings. Inside, which is mostly mauve, the action is known to be exotic and costly. It is said to be the most expensive hotel in the world. Located between the Champs-Elysées and the Plaza Atheéneée, the seven-story, 73-room Nova-Park has mostly Swiss...
...Nova-Park Elysées, which sits on the site of the century-old Paris-Match building and retains its façades, cost about $45 million to furbish and furnish. It is largely the inspiration of René E. Hatt, 55, a beefy Swiss developer known to the hotel's 280 employees as Le Big Boss. Hatt, whose Nova-Park chain owns Switzerland's biggest hotel, in Zurich, also has hotels in Jiddah, Saudi Arabia and Cairo. This fall the chain will open its first U.S. hotel, in New York City; it will occupy the Gotham...
...election campaign. Noriega is considered a brutal militarist and ideological hard-liner who may ultimately surface as the most influential force in the country. "All the musical chairs are now in place in the National Guard," says a Western intelligence analyst. "Now they have to go through the façade of democracy...
Gabled windows sit atop the pseudo-colonial façade. A sturdy elm offers shade for a manicured lawn. A flagstone path leads up to a hospitable front door. But 211 Pine Street, Mayfield, U.S.A., is not just any house. It is the home of Theodore Cleaver, infinitely better known as the Beaver...
...Falklands, shop windows throughout the country were plastered with sky-blue-and-white signs proclaiming UNIDOS, ES MÁS FACIL (United, it's easier). By last week those painted proclamations had faded in the weak sunlight of the southern winter-and so had Argentina's façade of political unity. As British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher confirmed to President Ronald Reagan that Argentina would have no say in the future of the disputed Falkland Islands, the defeated nation bordered dangerously on anarchy...