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...official ceremonies last week, several thousand people milled about the ticket booths at Place d' Ac-cueil awaiting the public opening at 9:30 a.m. A voice boomed over a loudspeaker: "The time is 9:29." As the seconds ticked away, the crowd began a bilingual countdown-"ten, neuf, eight, sept, six, cinq, four, trois, two, un." Then, with a roar, the first visitors burst in. Watching them swarm over the grounds, one official, who had spent four exhausting years building Expo 67, said quietly: "I get the feeling that it isn't ours any more." But that...
...completed building is the first of 50-ranging in price from $125,000 to $165,000-which will make up a housing development for millionaires on the slopes of the Maritime Alps towering above the beaches of the French Riviera. The designer of all these houses at Castellaras-le-Neuf (New Castellaras) is a razor-tongued, 62-year-old French architect who scorns higher education, the construction industry, straight lines, and almost everything about architecture...
...solid background. Signature looks to be a single building, but at the proper distance its doors and windows spell the artist's name and its eaves the date. Jokes all, they are. and technically indebted to other painters. Ramapo Hills owes flagrant credit to Franz Marc, Le Pont Neuf to Giorgio de Chirico, Kiki to Modigliani, others to Braque. Léger, Picasso and Magritte. Yet they have much beyond mockery that is their own: enough original sensitivity and so abundant a measure of spontaneity that it almost begins not to matter that the method is imprecise...
When Elizabeth and Philip glide along the Seine on a royal barge, they will be sung at by 60 separate groups of folk singers in native costume on the Pont Louis-Philippe and serenaded by 500 little boys in red surplices from the Pont Neuf. As the barge nears the Ile de la Cité, over Notre Dame will flash a mammoth display of pinwheels, Roman candles and flares, featuring (for the first time in pyrotechnic history) heliotrope skyrockets...
...Rouyn, Quebec, the French-language Pays Neuf (circ. 2,700) proudly calls itself "A Weekly Paper with Life." Last week life was so quiet in Rouyn (pop. 8,808) that Pays Neuf published a Page One apology, putting into words what many a newsman has often felt. Said the paper: "The weekend was so quiet everywhere that putting out a newspaper this week was far from interesting. We believe that this issue won't please our readers much, but really it is not our fault . . . We are going through a barren period, and people do not seem disposed...