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Triumph of Turgidity. Last week the results were unwrapped, and with a flourish De Gaulle invited France's 120-member Académie des Sciences and all living Nobel prizewinners for the first preview. The effect was staggering. France's huge official warehouse had been combed through for the original Empire-style furniture (only De Gaulle's eight-room suite has been done in Louis XVI); provincial and national museums were searched for the original paintings. To weave the 24 Aubusson rugs, carefully kept facsimiles of the original patterns were used; Lyon silk-makers simply followed swatches...
...married to Mie Kitahara, who was his co-star in 22 pictures, and they live in a rich suburb. This has steadied Yujiro, and he now works hard at his acting, his business enterprises and his weekly prime-time TV show. "A man must do things," he now says, flashing a Western value earned with much pain and much recompense. "Action is the rule...
...newly planted South Lawn to hear the Central Kentucky Youth Symphony Orchestra performing at one of Jackie's cultural programs. At another garden party for 100 foreign Fulbright scholars, the President was upstaged by a 17-month-old Arab girl, who cavorted around him and cried "Mommie, mom-mie," while Kennedy saluted "some of the brightest minds from abroad." Said the President, manfully ignoring the fact that some of his new flower beds had taken a beating from the week's crowds: "This garden, like other things around Washington, is new and growing and blossoming...
Died. Henry Bordeaux, 93, oldest of the 39 immortals in the Académie Française, author of more than 100 books, one of France's most popular novelists at the turn of the century, when his novels, such as La Robe de Laine, caught the mood of the late Victorian era, extolling the ideals of family life, religious piety and love of one's country; in Paris...
...Immortals of the sedate Académie Française recently received an intriguing parcel from an unknown donor. In the mail came the most literary pornographic novel since the Marquis de Sade. Called L'Histoire d'O, it once moved Catholic Paul Claudel to remark, "All priests should read it so they may have an exact sense of sin." The parcel was intended to prejudice academicians against electing the man who had written the book's preface. Jean Paulhan, 78, and who is widely suspected of having written the novel himself under a pseudonym. A grand...