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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...very unsettling for the quiet, fastidious musician, who rises by 5 a.m. every day to begin working at an upright piano in his suburban Paris apartment. The son of a Marseille postal inspector, he learned piano and violin from his father, entered the Marseille Conservatory at ten, and soon seemed headed for the life of a concert pianist. Instead, he veered off into a jazz career at 17, eventually became interested in the wider instrumental palette and richer sonorities of pop arranging. Established though he was in the profession, he remained a blank to the public, since French disk jockeys...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Changing the Recipe | 3/22/1968 | See Source »

...report, compiled by State Department Inspector General J. K. Mansfield, told of an argosy of luxuries and trivia bestowed under AID financing: a $2,111 car for the Japanese embassy in Santo Domingo, a stereophonic hi-fi system for the El Salvador embassy, wine glasses and $10,000 worth of pastel-colored bidets for the Dominican Republic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign Aid: Argosy of Trivia | 3/1/1968 | See Source »

After a year at Dartmouth and an engineering degree from M.I.T. ('36), Bunkie went to work for a Detroit machine shop. He reached Pontiac in 1939 as a menial "tool chaser." Then, for a decade, he tried out anything that might broaden his experience from defense-plant inspector to car-assembly superintendent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Autos: The Biggest Switch | 2/16/1968 | See Source »

...Police Inspector Joseph Amoroso denied earlier rumors that the suspects were members of the "Deacons" gang. "I just don't think these people are Deacons," he said yesterday...

Author: By James M. Fallows, | Title: Sophomore's Condition Improves As Police Hunt for Fifth Suspect | 1/16/1968 | See Source »

...with some 500 novels to his credit, Georges Simenon continues to demonstrate that he is a writer of extraordinary range-from murder-a-month Inspector Maigret thrillers to some of the most original psychodrama since Gide. These days his tone is quieter and more autumnal than it used to be; he is thinking hard about old age. His latest book suggests Edward Albee loose among the geriatric set, a Virginia Woolf on Medicare...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Short Notices: Dec. 22, 1967 | 12/22/1967 | See Source »

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