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...Thieu feels neglected, however, he is not alone. Mme. Nguyen Cao Ky, the fetching wife of Thieu's Vice President, has been heard to complain with some heat: "I am mad at my husband. In the day he's busy with official business; at night he's busy with Gunsmoke...
...women are not slaves in them." Mme. Richard, now a sprightly 81, is not alone. A band of 60 Gaullist Deputies, led by Claude Peyret, is preparing legislation to permit the houses to function once again. Premier Jacques Chaban-Delmas has privately expressed support for the drive...
...happy with the Ape cut and so virtuoso at it that 75 top Japanese hair stylists flew in last week to study his techniques. Julie Christie, Mary Quant and the cast of Hair have all left theirs on English cutting-room floors. In Paris, the Duchess of Windsor, Mme. Herve Alphand and Claudia Cardinale have gone for Alexandre's version of the style; Elizabeth Taylor and Sophia Loren settled for Apelike wigs. Alba of Rome's Alba & Francesca (who fittingly names the cut "dégradé") has left Queen Anne Marie of Greece a shaggy exile...
...Controversy. The delegates haggled over which Cambodia to recognize, the Lon Nol regime in Phnom-Penh or Prince Sihanouk's outfit in Peking; they decided to seat neither. Mme. Nguyen Thi Binh, foreign minister of the Viet Cong's Provisional Revolutionary Government, was welcomed as an observer after a debate that Kaunda dismissed as merely "a bit of controversy." The "nonaligned" posture of the conference was bent even further when Zambian police arrested 16 Western reporters and deported three of them. The men were detained, explained the Zambian government, because "the monopoly press of the West" was seeking...
That was 1948, and Vasarely has been returning to Gordes every summer since. Last week the whole village turned out to honor the sinewy Hungarian, who long ago was tacitly adopted as an honorary citizen. Down from Paris flew a host of artists, critics and dignitaries, led by Mme. Georges Pompidou, to attend the opening of the Vasarely Foundation in Gordes, a combination research center and public museum containing 1,500 ; of Vasarely's works. To house the foundation, the city rented " to the painter the massive 16th century Chateau de Gordes for a symbolic one franc a year...