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...delegates were quartered in luxurious villas and a new ten-story hotel, and their gourmet meals were prepared by an imported battalion of chefs (one from Maxim's in Paris). The estimated price tag for the extravaganza (including the construction of a six-lane highway, a new presidential palace and the conference-theater complex) was $800 million. That is nearly 75% of Gabon's budget for 1977, in a country whose per capita gross domestic product is $2,800 -the highest in black Africa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AFRICA: Voting for the Gun Barrel | 7/18/1977 | See Source »

...Audio-visual machines and bilingual signs help guide lost passengers. Longest walk: 750 ft. Baggage, immigration and customs: fast. Hotels/Motels: sparse. Sofitel-Jacques Borel within airport boasts the best view for the Concorde takeoff, another hotel 1 ¼ miles away. Amenities: superb. Le Bistrot sidewalk cafe; five restaurants. Best: Maxim's. Four bars, open 24 hr. Arcade of tax-free boutiques on transit floor offers every brand of French perfume (20% off), watches, scarves, jewelry, liquor, luggage, pâté, etc. Barbershop and beauty salon. First-aid station. Overall: functional but sans joie de vivre...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: TIME'S Guide to Airports: Jet Lag on the Ground | 7/18/1977 | See Source »

...career, however, is thriving. Lost Souls, an Italian movie in which she stars as a subdued, fragile and fearful wife, opened in Paris last week, and this week she starts filming Love at First Sight, a story of World War I. Some scenes will be shot at Maxim's, where Deneuve's two lovers, a French aristocrat (Philippe Noiret) and his German cousin (Sam Waterston), meet to celebrate her birthday. Deneuve is happy with her "beautiful part...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Apr. 4, 1977 | 4/4/1977 | See Source »

Some hold that music is the food of love. Others, that love is the food of music. To each his own little Hallmark maxim. But there is a curious undeniable non-relation between these elements, too. You can love til eternity and pipe in Wagner's Niebelungenlied in octophonic sound 24-hours a day, and still die of starvation in the process. That is part of what this fund-raising for the BSO is about, too. Ten per cent of the aimed-for $115,000 goal will go toward the pension fund for the players, most of whom are grossly...

Author: By Judy Kogan, | Title: Could George Plimpton Even Whistle Dixie? | 2/9/1977 | See Source »

...Childhood of Maxim Gorky, by Max Konskoi. Sunday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Movie listings for the week | 1/13/1977 | See Source »

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