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...will find that he hardly knows anything about his past either. He will feel suspicious of his closest friends and relatives. He will suddenly wake up in the middle of the night and say: "I know, it was my fiancee who told them that I read Maxim Gorky's Mother...
...wished to go, to that Egypt. But in his mind the image of Cléo de Mérode, a courtesan who so enraptured Paris society in the '90s that even Proust is said to have murmured "Gloria in excelsis Cléo!" when she walked into Maxim's, fused with those of Cleopatra and the Sphinx. So what could be more natural than to make her a votive cosmetic box, filled with souvenirs of Egypt...
...Maxim on Hall's office wall...
...tung (see story page 22). Reason: Mao, as the President puts it, united "800 million volatile and historically disparate and separated people." Except for the population figure, the phrase could equally apply to the Philippines. Marcos also admires another great historical figure. "What was Napoleon's maxim?" he asks rhetorically. " 'The art of power is not how to use your friends but how to use your enemies...
Calling for a year of "peace with honor," David L. "Maxim" Gorski, chief of University Police, accepts a promotion to Major. Two hundred officers with baby-blue jeeps and armored squad cars stage a full-dress Solidarity parade outside Mass Hall...