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...front page (LAWYER BATTLES COPS FOR DIRTY BOOKS) and his daughter kicked out of school. Sandra then shoots off to Paris to study painting, and gets a portrait of herself reprinted in LIFE-a portrait with five cubistic breasts. Father rushes to the rescue, steps innocently into a maison de tolérance to make a phone call, gets caught in a raid, winds up with his name on the front page (LAWYER NABBED WITH UNDERWORLD QUEEN) and his daughter disgraced in the eyes of her French fiancé's family...
...force was overhauled, Paris detectives were called in for advice. When Quebec drew up its six-year development plan, it was only natural to turn for inspiration to France's successful planification économique. And when Quebec Premier Jean Lesage journeyed to Paris to open a $340,000 Maison du Quebec two years ago, Charles de Gaulle welcomed him with all the pomp usually accorded a head of state...
Died. Jacques Guerlain, 88, longtime co-director (with his late brother Pierre) of Maison Guerlain, a leisure-time collector of French impressionists, who in the family tradition personally oversaw the development of all new perfumes, among them such best-sellers as L'Heure Bleue. Mitsouko. Shalimar; after a long illness; in Paris...
Killing the Splendor. The same sad sounds are heard from other voices, other rooms. Ray Castro, owner of four top Chicago restaurants (Jacques, Maison Lafite, Café de Paris, La Maisonette), has canceled plans to open a $150,000 supper club, says that the decline in his business during the past three months means that he will pay $21,000 less in taxes and his employees will get considerably reduced bonuses. In Detroit's fanciest restaurants, the London Chop House and the Caucus Club, business is off about 25%, and the entertainment has been reduced accordingly. At Trader...
...thick were the crowds that surged to greet Ben Bella's plane when it touched down at Maison Blanche Airport that an Algerian army officer in a paratroop uniform fired a tommy gun in the air to clear a path for him. With sirens screaming, 30 motorcycle cops led the motorcade on a wild ride into downtown Algiers. Switching lanes with abandon and totally disregarding one-way street signs, the cars alternately sped along at 60 m.p.h. or were caught in bumper-to-bumper jams as the screaming populace boiled forward to see its new leader. Finally the caravan...