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...short of his 94th birthday. In the seven decades of work that lay between Edward Steichen's birth in Luxembourg and his death in Connecticut last week, he had become the most justly famous photographer in America: a patriarch in reputation and appearance, with his grizzled pepper-and-salt beard, his short way with bores and fools and his boundless kindness to younger photographers in whom he recognized signs of talent. His was an enormous life, comparable in range to Picasso's; his portrait subjects spanned modern history, from the actress Eleanora Duse and Auguste Rodin to Eleanor...
...Nixon's Justice Department to determine whether his committee will be prosecuted for its handling of the Vesco money. The Justice Department may also try to determine whether the money came from Vesco's private funds or whether, as some reports indicated, from a bank in either Luxembourg or the Bahamas that is controlled by a Vesco corporation. The latter would be a possible double violation because no campaign committee is allowed to accept money from either a corporation or a foreign source...
...throat-curdling dialect. Strasbourg's stay-at-homes need only change a channel for a new language experience. They get the three German TV channels on their sets as well as the three French ones. With a bit of antenna fiddling they can also pick up Swiss and Luxembourg television, although it is hard to imagine why they would want...
...short, the European Parliament is something of a laughingstock among legislatures. It has no permanent home and meets variously in Strasbourg or Luxembourg, while its 13 standing committees usually convene in Brussels. The Parliamentarians, 1,200 members of the secretariat and 30 tons of documents are perpetually shuttling between the three cities. That predicament has turned a Luxembourg trucking company into one of the continent's most prosperous and made good business for hotels. It has also earned some of the peripatetic Parliamentarians the distinction of being the hardest-drinking legislators in the world and made the "Strasbourg girl...
Some $99 million of the money has simply vanished. The other $125 million, says the SEC, was mostly "spirited" away to Luxembourg and Bahamian banks controlled by Vesco's group and then placed in a series of dummy corporations also serving as fronts for Vesco...