Word: michell
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Cambridge Chamber Players, with Guest Artist Pianist Andre-Michel Schub, will present the final Longy Series Concert including pieces by Beethoven, Villa-lobos, Mozart and Mendelssohn at the Longy School of Music...
...French President perceived a desire for fundamental change, his response was, well, a bit restrained. The most striking feature of the new Cabinet was not the new faces but the missing ones. Gone were three ministers who represented the principal political groups in the coalition: Independent Republican Michel Poniatowski, an outspoken crony of Giscard's who was Minister of the Interior; Centrist Jean Lecanuet, Minister of Planning; and Gaullist Olivier Guichard, Justice Minister. The three are expected to turn their attention to preparing next year's campaign at the grass-roots level. Although six portfolios changed hands...
...Gaullists were not altogether happy either. The new government does not include a single close ally of Jacques Chirac, the newly elected mayor of Paris who trounced Michel d'Ornano, Giscard's personal choice for the job. Giscard did his best to gloss over this humiliating loss. When Chirac was formally presented at the Elysée as "Monsieur le Maire de Paris," the President graciously responded, "Et cher ami" (and dear friend). Later Chirac tried to cool tempers at a meeting of Gaullist parliamentarians, many of whom had been openly derisive of Giscard. "We will be loyal...
Particularly galling to Giscard was the Parisian victory of his ex-ally and former Premier, who had dramatically quit the government last year. Winning over Giscard's hand-picked candidate, Michel d'Ornano, Chirac-barring an unexpected upset-will now hold sway in the Hôtel de Ville as Paris' first elected mayor in a century; the office was re-introduced as a result of a change in statutes engineered by Giscard 15 months ago. Previously, Paris was run by government-appointed officials. The mayor's new powers will include administering a $ 1.4 billion yearly...
...Golden Door, a chic fat farm in Escondido, Calif., Chef Michel Stroot wondered what he would do now to sweeten the evening's dessert for his chubby clientele. At a Weight Watchers clinic in Manhattan, Michael Fiorentino, 38, a veteran dieter, vowed that he would travel to Europe, if necessary, to replenish his supply. At offices of the American Diabetes Association, telephones rang almost continuously as anxious callers sought advice. In Brooklyn, the Cumberland Packing Corp. suspended production of its product, Sweet 'n Low, then resumed it to meet suddenly booming demand. On the New York Stock Exchange...