Word: ne
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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PICASSO: WOMEN, text by Hélène Parmelin. 199 pages. Editions Cercle d'Art and Harry N. Abrams, distributed by International Book Society, a division of Time Inc. $18. With the fond blessing of the master, Miss Parmelin, a Picasso student and familiar of his household, has assembled what amounts to a private exhibit: most of these 160 studies, here presented in stunning four-color plates, have not been shown before. The artist has illuminated many of them with his own comments, and has contributed the gay, gaudy "Picasso alphabet"-multicolor flourishes in chalk-that adorns Miss...
...idea was "to allow the women se mettre en valeur"-meaning to show off a bit-explained French Perfume Queen Hélène Rochas after her My Fair Lady ball in the Bois de Boulogne. A bit! Mme. Rochas herself wore $250,000 worth of diamonds to decorate her egret-plumed Guy Laroche gown. The Duke and Duchess of Windsor, the Begum Aga Khan, the Duke and Duchess of Bedford and all the other jet-set guests showed up in ascots, ostrich feathers and grey top hats. "There was not an egret plume or a false moustache...
Thousands of solemn Austrians lined the streets of Vienna to pay their last respects to former Chancellor and Foreign Minister Leopold Figl. It was partly because Austrians love nothing better than a schöne Leich' (beautiful funeral), and this was the most elaborate since the Emperor Franz Josefs in 1916. But it was also because last week marked the tenth anniversary of the Austrian State Treaty, under which the Red Army left the country, and Figl was best remembered as the Foreign Minister who stood on the balcony of Belvedere Palace ten years ago, waving the morocco-bound...
...further information, contact: SCOPE Project, SCLC, 334 Ave, NE, Atlanta, Georgia
Nevertheless, Ne Win's "instant socialism" is an unholy economic mess. He has nationalized everything from banks (including two Red Chinese ones) to tiny shops selling betel nuts and needles. Since the dispossessed shopkeepers were mostly Indians and Overseas Chinese, the Burmese people took the crackdown philosophically, but suffer because the new government-owned shops are so inefficiently run. Yet even as they queue up for onions and chili peppers in the drab city of Rangoon, which is filled with patched-up pagodas and sidewalks broken by the roots of banyan trees, the Burmese say, "Let's hope...