Word: fontainebleau
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...Fontainebleau is a town 35 miles south of Paris, famous for its cheese, its forest, its historic chateau, and a 400-year-old monastery. Lately it has also become important to international business as the site of what is probably Europe's best business school, the Institut Européen d'Administration des Affaires. INSEAD, as it is known, has built a reputation as a sort of Harvard Business School of Europe by carefully winnowing applicants and training them so rigorously that they are eagerly courted by the headhunters of big international companies. This week INSEAD...
...board for the one-year course; students can also draw scholarship loans, since INSEAD is financed in large part by donations from international corporations. Though the permanent faculty is small, guest lecturers come from all over Europe to help instruct the students. To consolidate facilities, now scattered over Fontainebleau, the school this year will start a $1.6 million central building for classrooms and administration...
...Beach's top architect, Morris Lapidus, from whose drawing board have sprung such pacesetting superhotels as the $40 million Fontainebleau, the $20 million Americana (in nearby Bal Harbour) and the $12 million Eden Roc, has the same idea. He explains: "I'm not designing hotels. I'm designing stage settings on which people will play out their two-week vacations...
...Elaboration. But on this Friday afternoon in Miami, James Aubrey was not planning to fire anyone. The Gleason party, complete with June Taylor dancers, was over. The TV king was ready for a good time. And then the telephone in his Fontainebleau suite rang. It was New York, and it was someone with enough authority to order him back immediately. No weekend, no pretty girls, no fun; instead, airport, jet, worry...
...speechmaking over, Lyndon, his wife and his daughters ducked into the Fontainebleau's plush La Ronde room to watch Cyd Charisse dance, later strolled along neon-lit Collins Avenue. Lyndon got to bed by 2 a.m., was up before 5 to drive to Homestead Air Force Base...