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...Gerard Debreu a revered figure among his colleagues. Last week the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences extended Debreu's fame far beyond such professional confines. The academy announced that it was awarding the 1983 Nobel Prize in Economics to Debreu, 62, for three decades of distinguished achievement. The French-born professor of economics and mathematics at the University of California at Berkeley, a U.S. citizen since 1975, becomes the twelfth American to win the economics prize since it was first awarded...
DIED. Françoise de Langlade de la Renta, 62, French-born editor and wife of Fashion Designer Oscar de la Renta, whose shrewdness and flair as a hostess propelled the couple to social pre-eminence among New York City's accomplished and powerful; of cancer; in New York City. Editor in chief of French Vogue in the 1960s, she met De la Renta in Paris and brought her elegance and experience to Vogue in New York, becoming an arbiter of taste and fashion among a wide circle of friends. Her lavishly decorated homes in Manhattan and Connecticut influenced...
Although Jacques Hugon's present role only requires he get wet once or twice a year--like in last Saturday's 79-34 dunking of Yale, when he appeared as guest anchorman on the Harvard divers' 400-yd. relay squad--the French-born sophomore has proven himself an invaluable asset to the Harvard men's swim team without ever scoring a point...
...born Jewish and will remain so even if that is unacceptable to some." Strange words, coming from the man who is now one of the highest-ranking officials of the Catholic Church in France. Indeed, the Pope's choice for Archbishop of Paris, Jean-Marie Lustiger, 54, French-born son of Polish-Jewish Holocaust victims (his mother died at Auschwitz), created quite a stir when announced last week. Lustiger's credentials are, however, impeccably orthodox. Though he wore a Star of David throughout the Nazi occupation of France, Lustiger turned to Catholicism as a very young child, formally...
...expert on the electronics of communication, electro-mechanical systems and acoustics, the French-born LeCorbeiller possessed "a quality one often associates with French people--the ability to take complicated subjects and make them clear," I. Bernard Cohen, Thomas Professor of the History of Science, said yesterday...