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...people react to stationery or employee uniforms. To help create the right impression, L. & M. employs 130 people, including psychologists, sociologists and anthropologists. At the top are easygoing Chairman J. (for Joshua) Gordon Lippincott, 56, onetime product-development teacher at Brooklyn's design-oriented Pratt Institute, and courtly, French-born President Walter Pierre Margulies, 51, onetime chief designer for Statler Hotels. Says Margulies: "Designers in general have too high a taste level. Our aim is to speak the language of the consumer...
...after defeating King Henry III at the battle of Lewes, Simon de Montfort, the ambitious French-born Earl of Leicester, summoned the barons, bishops and warrior knights of England to a national colloquy in London. To muster popular support for his cause among the new commercial classes, Montfort also took the unprecedented step of inviting each of the young nation's townships to send "two of their more discreet, lawful and trustworthy citizens or burgesses." By thus giving commoners a voice in government for the first time, Montfort, as Winston Churchill wrote, "lighted a fire never to be quenched...
...Born. To Andy Williams, 34, TV's top-rated weekly crooner (Moon River), and Claudine Longet Williams, 24, his French-born wife: their second child, first son; in Burbank, Calif...
Hand Screening. Started in 1959 by French-born Harvard Professor Georges Doriot, who noticed and decided to correct the lack of top-quality management training in Europe, INSEAD today has 120 students from 25 countries. Most of them are Europeans, but seven are from the U.S., and others come from Brazil, India, Japan and South Viet Nam. Students or their sponsoring firms pay $1,800 tuition and 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...
...ticket, made it the kind of blast Elsa would have liked. The theme was Une Nuit sur la Côte d'Azur, in honor of the old girl's favorite playground, and Cannes' Whisky à GoGo discothèque was faithfully reproduced while French-born Decorations Chairwoman Jeanine Levitt looked like an ondine from the Riviera in a sapphire-studded Griffe and a peacock blue...