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...following the woman-it is almost impossible to tell because he, like she, seems in no hurry. The director (Michelangelo Antonioni? Alain Resnais? Federico Fellini? Francois Truffaut?) is definitely in no hurry. The movie (La Notte? L'Av-ventura? La Dolce Vita? Hiroshima, Mon Amour?) is 50 minutes long already, and still the woman is walking, the man is walking, and the only real involvement anywhere is occurring among people, who are not walking but sitting, scattered throughout the theater, nodding and telling each other how real, how honest, how truly artful...
...Union may never become a true Common Market airline. Britain's BOAC and BEA have announced that they will not join even if Britain enters the Com mon Market. The Netherlands' KLM, which walked out of the negotiations three years ago in disgust over its allotted share of the revenues, now seems anxious to jump back in-but on its own terms. But even if only the present four lines join Air Union, their reduced costs will give them an advantage in competition with U.S. overseas airlines. This argument is sure to be made when...
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What set Rainier and De Gaulle at odds was Monaco's long standing as a tax haven, a situation that dates from 1816, when the reigning prince sold off some acreage and put the proceeds in a fund to cover government expenses and relieve Monégasques forevermore of the need to pay taxes. France saw nothing wrong with this until thousands of French corporations and individuals began setting up domiciles in Monaco to dodge French taxes...
...Paris sent customs agents to set up barriers at the border that Novelist Colette once described as the frontier of flowers. Mostly, the revenuers darted about in mobile vans and on motorcycles, making nuisances of themselves, which was the idea. "Berlin has its wall of shame," complained one Monégasque businessman, "but we have our wall of ridicule...