Word: greatly
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...name, like his own, that used to evoke howls of laughter from school friends because of its sound. To "Pompon," as the French affectionately call him, it has proved no liability. Indeed, he can turn on the peasant touch at the whiff of a Gauloise, and uses it to great effectiveness campaigning. Pompidou blazed through his studies, graduating first in his class from the prestigious École Normale Supérieure in 1934. While his classmates ground away at the school's notoriously brutal classwork, Pompidou forever seemed to have time to swing ? cultivating his taste for modern...
Statement could easily become a cult movie about a sort of engage Graduate. MGM has already bought the movie option and production plans are under way. Kunen is in great demand for TV and radio talk shows and freelance assignments. But, as he told TIME Reporter L. Clayton DuBois last week, he skips them if they interfere with his duties as "one of the ordinary soldiers" among Columbia's warriors. He admits to some concern that "I occasionally get criticized for exploiting the movement and for allowing myself to spend time being co-opted by the mass media." What...
...richest nation had no art museum worthy of the name. In that year Financier Andrew Mellon gave the Government his $50 million art collection and added another $16 million to build a museum to house it. Today the National Gallery is one of the world's great collections, and, in large measure, the man who has guided its growth and controlled its quality is Director John Walker, 62, who last week announced his retirement...
...bachelor, Brown may well liven up some of the National Gallery's stuffier formal functions, and possibly even encourage the purchase of more contemporary paintings. But his prime concern, he said last week, was to deepen "our commitment to scholarship" by bringing to the new study center the "great minds in art research from all over the world...
...results are mixed at best, reports TIME'S Moscow Correspondent Jerrold Schecter. The extra day has piled 10 million extra people on top of the 18 million already using the council's facilities. The demand for sports goods has grown so great that hockey sticks disappeared from the shelves of Moscow's stores this winter. There is still a two-to three-year wait for new automobiles, and drivers who plan a long trip must load up with food and extra gas before setting out, since there are few service stations and no motels and restaurants outside...