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...rituals of the Gaullist regime is the general's Cabinet meeting each Wednesday morning at 10. Incredibly, the agenda last week proposed, among other things, a discussion of the status of models in the French fashion industry. As Pompidou was preparing to leave his offices in the Hotel Matignon for the drive to the Elysee Palace, the telephone rang. It was De Gaulle. He had to get away, De Gaulle said. For two nights, he had not slept, and now, in De Gaulle's words, he "couldn't see clearly." Moments later, a news bulletin flashed across...
...fire that gutted the top three floors of the Time & Life building on Avenue Matignon in Paris took the lives of Public Relations Director Jean de Wissocq and Personnel Officer Françoise Hirou. Last week, in a moving ceremony presided over by Ambassador Charles Bohlen, 31 French businessmen presented the Paris staff with a Germaine Richier sculpture, symbolizing both their sympathy and their friendship...
...elegant phraseology. Twice this year he has displayed these same rhetorical talents on long TV interview programs, has made state visits to Austria and India and soon will journey to Iran. And every two weeks he invites the most important Gaullist Deputies to his office at the Hotel Matignon for strategy sessions, laying the foundation for the day when they will possibly be his to command. No one knows for certain in what direction Pompidou would take the Gaullists aprés-De Gaulle. But, having so long followed in the steps of the master, he may find it difficult...
Where do they live, which places? Arlington, Arlington Heights, North Cambridge, Medford, Belmont. Change at Park Street for Brighton--Nootin--Wahtertown. To be specific: Arlington High, Arlington Central Catholic, Cambridge High and Latin, Rindge Tech, Matignon High School, Our Lady Help of Christmas High School, Newton High, Newton South, Belmont High, St. Mary's, Medford High School. South Boston, an hour away by MBTA, keeps to itself; the plusher suburbs are too self-possessed...
...handsome new building (right) ' under a brooding Paris sky is the $5,000,000, nine-story TIME & LIFE building on the Avenue Matignon, just off the Champs Elysees. When the building opens this fall, TIME Inc. will occupy the top three floors; the rest of the office space has already been rented, mostly to subsidiaries of U.S. companies...