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...Fran P. Hosken, an "architectural writer," observed that neither building expresses the spirit of the subject studied there. She complained that Larsen Hall "lacks all reference to people in its blank walls -- such references as windows, floor divisions, or some means for the eye to orient itself to 'read' the building." "Why should a building concerned with . . . teaching shut out the world and turn inside itself?" Miss Hosken asked...
...Goodnight at the National Theater, will next do Strindberg. Gielgud, who brings his Ivanov to the U.S. in April, this time with Vivien Leigh, was seen the last two weekends in The Ages of Man on CBS television in the U.S. Julie Christie, having finished Doctor Zhivago, starts shooting François Truffaut's Fahrenheit 451 this week...
...form the country's largest appliance producer, and the steelmaking Pont-à-Mousson merged with the Compagnie Financière de Suez (TIME, Jan. 28). Image et Son, a French radio-TV firm owning peripheral stations that broadcast into France, announced it was buying 30% of the Compagnie Française de Télevision, a research organization...
...committed suicide before he could be taken alive. With that, the scandal could no longer be suppressed. As the satiric Canard Enchainé, right or wrong, put it last week: "Figon committed suicide with a shot fired against him from point-blank range." De Gaulle's campaign opponents, François Mitterrand and Jean Lecanuet, demanded that the truth be told, flayed the Gaullists for trying to cover up the affair...
...transistor in his lower left molar rather embarrass him. Bribed by British intelligence (running short of certified spies, understandably) with the promise of a Cord Le Baron, Niven flies off to run interference for an oil sheik whose assassination is pending. Among the double-dealers he encounters, none surpass Françoise Dorléac, a wry, loose-limbed French beauty who wafts the spirit of high comedy through a role that would hardly seem worth the bother if a lesser actress played...