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Paris has its glittering Ile de la Cite on the Seine, Budapest its merry Margaret Island on the Danube. New York City also has an island in the stream that may someday be an equally stimulating place to live or visit. Known as Roosevelt Island (for F.D.R.), the 2.5-mile-long sliver of granite in the East River-formerly Welfare Island -served as a malodorous dumping ground for the wicked, the incurable and the insane. Today the islet is a burgeoning new community, only 300 yds. from Manhattan but psychologically light-years distant. This week convenience and mystique came together...
...TIME'S sources, Ben Barka's body was interred in the garden of a villa at Fontenay-le-Vicomte, a Paris suburb; 16 days later, for fear that inquisitive French police might discover it, the corpse was hastily exhumed and reburied on the southeast bank of the Ile de la Grande Jatte opposite the Boulevard General Leclerc, in another Paris suburb, Neuilly-sur-Seine...
...days earlier, Pompidou had been buried with an austere, simple service, as he had requested in a confidential note that he gave to his aide 20 months ago. A Requiem Mass was celebrated in his parish church of St.Louisen-l'Ile, near the Pompidous' elegant seven-room apartment on the He St. Louis in the middle of the Seine. Some 400 mourners, including his widow Claude, his son Alain, members of the government and old friends, crowded the baroque church for the 50-minute service. His casket was draped with the French tricolor and, as he had requested...
What happens to Channing should not befall any hard-working superstar. At the play's beginning, she is a rich widow mourning her husband by wearing every awful gem he ever gave her. About to board the Ile de France, she recalls an earlier, gayer voyage. The rest of the evening flashes back to Gentlemen...
These days, a tourist might recognize Melvin Laird talking on a bench with Kentucky's former Senator John Sherman Cooper, or former White House Chief of Staff H.R. Haldeman striding briskly between points of ex ile. Here and there, among the office workers brown-bagging lunch on the grass, may be seen other men talking White quietly in House the gates - sunshine because only beyond there the could they be sure they were speaking only to each other. Or so they may think...