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...sailboat races go, it was an unmitigated disaster. By the time the two 12-meters rounded the second of six marks in the waters off Newport, Australia's Gretel II was already 5 min. 28 sec. ahead of France, skippered by Baron Marcel Bich. At the fourth mark, the margin was 24 min. 15 sec.-and then the baron had gotten lost in the fog. The race was finally called 43 minutes after Gretel II crossed the finish line. That made it four out of four for the Aussies, who now have the honor of mounting the 21st challenge...
...other record is an album with a hefty price tag ($4.98), The Best of Marcel Marceao-teasingly close to the spelling of the name of the famed French pantomimist. A typical excerpt goes something like this...
...when he made no sale for six months. "Since I guaranteed the artists that I'd sell 10% of their works, I almost had to start a collection," he says. He took off for Paris, where the artists whose works he had bought-Max Ernst, Man Ray, and Marcel Duchamp-repaid him by giving him pointers in painting. Today Copley's Surrealist collection ranks as the finest in the U.S., takes up much of his spacious Manhattan apartment, where he lives with his China-born wife,' Chuang-Hua, the author of a 1969 novel called Crossings...
HARVARD UNIVERSITY Marcel Breuer, D.A., architect. Antonio Carrillo Flores, LL.D., Mexico's Secretary of Foreign Relations, former Mexican Ambassador to the U.S. Joseph Luns, LL.D., Foreign Minister of The Netherlands...
Architect Marcel Breuer has designed several buildings in both Europe and America. One of the most famous is the UNESCO headquarters in Paris. From 1937 to 1942 he was a partner of the late Walter Gropius in teaching at Harvard and practice in Cambridge...