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DIED. Marcel Dalio, 83, demitasse-size comic and dramatic actor in French and Hollywood films; in Paris. Born Israel Moshe Blauschild of Rumanian Jewish parents, Dalio made his movie debut in 1933 and came to prominence in Pepe le Moko (1937). For Director Jean Renoir he anchored two great films...
Ever since Nureev defected while in Paris with the Kirov Ballet and began to be hailed there as a major star in his performances with the Marquis de Cuevas Ballet, balletomanes have dreamed of a Nureev-Fonteyn partnership. Nureev, 24, comes from a Ural peasant family, had danced with the...
Hidden traps can exist for name makers. When Chevrolet marketed its Nova in Puerto Rico, the company discovered that the car's name can be read no va, which translates as "does not go." Chevrolet also found out that many American Indians refused to buy the Apache pickup truck...
That represents quite a turnaround from the late 1970s, when Ford earned a reputation for manufacturing stodgy-looking cars. Concedes Edsel Ford, 34, a product planner and great-grandson of Company Founder Henry Ford: "People thought we built boring cars." Buyers were turned off by the slab sides and flat...
George Savile, first Marquis of Halifax, was alternately in and out of favor with the house of Stuart; his observations were worn smooth by disappointment: "Ambition is either on all fours or on tiptoes"; "The enquiry into a dream is another dream"; "Love is presently out of breath when it...