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Charles, a sometime sculptor, goes home because he psychologically cannot escape from his father and brings with him his friend Paul (Michel Piccolt) a philosophy professor. Paul soon learns that Theo has tried to freeze all life on his estate as it was in the fall of 1925. Theo's young wife Helene (Marlene Jobert), whom he picked to become his bridge while she was still a child dresses in twenties style and is chauffeured about in an elderly limousine. Charles too is impressed into this pattern of dress and life, and into total submission to the father. Theo wants...
Continental Grain Co. of Manhattan. Continental is headed by French-born Michel Fribourg, 59, a shrewd, aggressive executive, whose family founded the firm in Belgium more than 150 years ago. Cargill was started a little over a century ago by W.W. Cargill, a Wisconsin farm lad. The company's present chairman, Irwin E. Kelm, has the distinction of being the first chief from outside the Cargill and MacMillan related families, who still hold 90% of the stock...
...OGRE by MICHEL TOURNIER translated by BARBARA BRAY 373 pages. Doubleday...
...novel of ideas often suffers a fate similar to that of the goose destined for pâté de foie gras. Both are force-fed; both die sluggishly for the sake of a few rich morsels. Michel Tournier's The Ogre is engorged with ideas, which is one reason why it waddled off with France's 1970 Prix Goncourt. With unanimous praise from the critics ("The most important book to come out in France since Proust," said Janet Planner), the novel became a bestseller. It is not too difficult to see why. Its setting is World...
From the beginning, the expedition was split into rival factions-led, respectively, by the British and the Austrians. According to Britisher Don Whillans, the Austrians "were afraid of us getting into the lead." Said German Climber Michel Anderl caustically: "The precious contribution of the British was to help consume 16 bottles of oxygen and eat enormous quantities of food." Supplies seemed to be a considerable problem. Native Sherpas staged one brief strike when the climbers reached 17,550 ft. and threatened another one unless their demands for more food and equipment were met. While Dr. Karl Herrligkoffer left the expedition...