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...houses. Tastemongers used to consider Louis XIII too ponderous by comparison to the more delicate, later Louisiana that most people are afraid to plump down on. But no longer, for a revival of Louis XIII antiques has tripled their prices in the past five years; they are now the freshest item on the French market. Scarce, perhaps, but a perfect Treize chair runs to $2,000, compared with the $5,500 that a great Quinze plotzer costs. Original gateleg tables cost little more than Swedish modern...
Aber natürlich! When Christian Democrats from the city of Bonn convene next month to select their candidate for the 1965 West German Parliamentary elections, they are expected to nominate the freshest whiff of springtime that ever wafted up the Rhine from Cologne: Konrad Adenauer, 89. Der Alte has been telling cronies that his idea of a hobby for those sunset years would be a back bench of the Bundestag for the term that ends...
...segment of its audience to tears, hysteria and even outright unconsciousness. More than a movie, it is the answer to a maiden's prayer. Surprisingly, though, this hairy musical romp starring John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr-yclept the Beatles-is one of the smoothest, freshest, funniest films ever made solely for purposes of exploitation. It seems better than it ought to be simply because the Beatles prove themselves disarming personalities...
...rumble shortly after the first rehearsal of Maurice Béjart's new production of Berlioz' The Damnation of Faust. HOW BÉJART WILL UNDRESS MARGUERITE, promised one headline; FAUST IS A PEEPING TOM, declared another. It was no surprise that Paris greeted one of the freshest and most imaginative productions that the Opéra has had in years with the most furious scandal since Wagner brought Tannhäuser to town...
...affluent society, he recommended that FHA operations be extended to insure mortgages on vacation homes. He asked for 25,000 additional public-housing units each year, to be added not through new construction but more quickly by Government purchase or lease of existing unoccupied structures. In his freshest innovation, the President offered a three-part program to combat the "space-consuming, unplanned and uneconomic" sprawl of suburbia. Johnson would 1) grant direct loans to help communities set aside land for future public facilities, 2) insure subdivision builder loans to install basic facilities such as sewer and water lines...