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Hard as it might seem for a casino operator to run in the red, S.B.M. did just that in two recent years, and barely broke even in another. But now the wheel of fortune has spun to the black again. A few days ago, S.B.M.'s president, jovial little Prince Louis de Polignac, announced a profit of $2.5 million for the year ended last March 31 and a 40% rise in the price of S.B.M. stock, to $15.50. No one was more pleased than his third cousin, Prince Rainier, known to Americans as the husband of elegant Movie Star...
Kissinger landed at Orly Airport in a jovial mood, noting the "progress and cooperative spirit" that marked his talks with Tho before they recessed May 23. At a reception at Paris' George V Hotel, a perpetually smiling Tho assured guests that he was "optimistic." From Saigon came cheering reports that Vietnamese and Western officials saw the time as ripe for movement toward a real peace. Official photographers and television cameramen were admitted to the first session, which opened Wednesday morning at the Communist villa in Gifsur-Yvette, a Paris suburb. At previous talks, the presence of the cameras...
Most of Mills' friends were baffled by the suicide. Said one: "He was kind of a jovial guy, always joking with people. I never saw him lose his temper." Rogers Morton agreed: "He was always cheerful, optimistic about life...
...Ehrlichman. They would be difficult to match, however, and the President's first moves this week suggest that he will now try for a somewhat more loose and relaxed staff around him. This would be good for Nixon and for the country. If Richard Nixon were as jovial and gregarious as, say, William Howard Taft, he might have needed a Haldeman ("I'm Nixon's s.o.b.") to protect him from his own openness. That is not his problem...
...shown separately and would still be sensitive scenes. But a film made of these scenes would be one-sided, and this film is not. The gentleness of the store contrasts with Benoit's harsh winter ride with Antoine on an undertaking job far from the town. Antoine's jovial drinking in his store contrasts with his reprehensible neglect of his duties at the end. My Uncle Antoine is one of the most accessible of complex works, full of captivating imagery, often most expressive when the dialogue is most scarce, maintaining a slight air of frivolity at all but the blackest...