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...minute walk from "Tante Léonie's" across the Loir River (not to be confused with the Loire) takes the pilgrim to the Pré Catalan. The five-acre garden was created by Proust's uncle, a cloth merchant in Illiers, as a replica of the area in Paris' Bois du Bologne that bears the same name. The little lagoons, intricate patterns of shade trees, and the tiny lane lined with hawthorns (whose pink blossoms reminded Proust of his favorite dish, strawberries crushed in cream cheese) became Swann's park, and it is there that...
Victorious But Frustrated. Directed by Peter Hall and designed by John Bury, the Royal Shakespeare Company's production is impeccable. Vivien Merchant (Mrs. Harold Pinter), who is to Pinter's plays what Clara Schumann was to her husband's music, plays the woman with a mixture of hauteur and girlish romanticism. She makes the character both menacing and slightly spurious. Colin Blakely is blessedly funny and touching as the bluff husband whose male pride is aroused but baffled. He is apparently victorious but eventually frustrated. In the role of the mysterious wife, Dorothy Tutin catches the unconscious...
Miraculous Mayonnaise. In a similar case, a German merchant is being tried in Hamburg on charges of illegally pocketing $8,000,000 in subsidies. His 500-ton cargo ships would load up with maize flour (30% subsidy), and in mid-sea they would turn around and head for home. Their expensive cargoes were reimported as cattle feed (no tariff), and the journey would begin all over again. Other revolving traders, according to EEC tariff sheriffs, export melted butter (100% subsidy) that on the return trip miraculously becomes mayonnaise (no tariff). All that is needed for the transformation...
...young man who was shot and killed last Thursday night in front of Sanctuary on Mount Auburn St. was a 21-year-old white merchant seaman from Hammond, Ind., named Steven V. Myer, known to Cambridge street people only as "Stevie Wonder...
...bullets in his efforts to regain Sinai and the Gaza Strip from Israel. He succeeded only in accumulating 20,000 casualties in his fruitless "war of attrition," and was more than glad to negotiate a ceasefire. Sadat, with a calm and moderate approach and the subtlety of a bazaar merchant, has managed in four months to put Israel on the diplomatic defensive. First, in a major shift in Arab policy, he announced his willingness to recognize Israel's right to exist in return for the restoration of captured territory. Next, he offered a kind of mini-peace on the issue...