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...FIVE-DAY LOVER. The year's funniest import, a gay Gallic comedy of promiscuities in which Director Philipe de Broca, with the inspired collaboration of Comedian Jean-Pierre Cassel (The Love Game), assembles charming wisps of humor, twists them into a pretty little cord -and strangles every libertin (and libertine) in Paris...
Then, in the capital letters that the Union Leader reserves for matters of gravest import. Loeb concluded...
...Shipping Board, Paul toured the nation's shipyards, helping build morale among the workers. He also made some powerful friends, among them the National City Bank's Frank A. Vanderlip, who gave him a job in China after the war ended. Later, Paul started a rare-metals import business, bought a seat on the New York Stock Exchange, finally got into the oil business in a big way. Since his marriage, he has replaced his wife as board chairman of A. M. Kidder and, with Josephine, manages their vast business and philanthropic interests...
...year to the delights of shikar (hunting), zenana (the harem), and the support of the two American wives whom he divorced in Reno, but sponsored enough trail-blazing social measures, such as public education and the abolition of child marriage, to justify in the eyes of his people the import of his title: "His Highness the Lord Paramount, King of Kings, One Quarter Better Than Anyone Else...
Since Detroit's compact cars first began pouring into U.S. streets two years ago, they have been knocking off their imported rivals as if they were so many Los Angeles pedestrians. Total U.S. sales of imported cars skidded from a record 614,000 in pre-compact 1959 to an anticipated 375,000 this year, and import dealers have been run out of business in droves. But last week there were signs that the compacts had done their worst. In September the foreign invaders took nearly 9% of the U.S. auto market-their highest share in 20 months...