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...Point's editor and Servan-Schreiber's former colleague, the aim is to give French readers a taste of journalism free of ideology, an antidote to the "current breed of French intellectuals in the press and elsewhere, with their leftist dogmas and complacent nihilism." To Simon Nora, head of Le Point's parent company, the battle has just begun, and it is nothing more than old-fashioned competition. L'Express has flourished with a TIME-like format; "All we're doing," says Nora, "is trying to create a viable Newsweek...
Eventually the group presented its concept to Nora, general director of Librairie Hachette, a giant firm that owns 50 publications. The company also has links with the reigning Gaullist Party. Ironically, Nora himself was one of Servan-Schreiber's closest associates during the launching of L'Express in 1953, but the friendship iced over after Nora accepted a government post. The bad blood between the two added spice to Hachette's decision to publish Le Point. "Between such good friends gone wrong," says one top Paris journalist, "there can be nothing but cadavers...
...Institute Student Advisery Committee welcomes proposals for non-credit study groups in the areas of politics and public policy. See Janet Fraser or Nora Littlefield at the Institute of Politics for details, 78 Mount Auburn St., 495-9792. Deadline for submission of proposals for spring term 1973 study groups: December...
...takes the part of Len and turns it into a believable, if curiously passive portrait of a nice guy just too intent on finishing last. In contrast, as his rival Fred, Frank W. Leupold enters a stylish, occasionally overly malignant performance. As Mary, the mother of Len's girlfriend, Nora Jacobson is most convincing, a catch-all of stray hairs and wasted spirits. Rounding out the household. Lynne Breslin and Richard Christenson are no less relenting in the purpose with which they attack their roles, but I think they also suffer most from the emotional monotone that characterizes the evening...
...journalism conference to end all journalism conferences. Among participants in the 14 panel discussions are Gay Talese. Tom Wolfe, Renata Adler, James Aronson, David Halberstam, Dick Schaap, J. Anthony Lukas, Nat Hentoff, Jack Anderson, Martin Nolan, Joe McGinniss, Charles Goodell, Studs Terkel, Jimmy Breslin, Murray Kempton, Pete Hamill, Nora Ephron, Blair Clark, Erwin Krasnow, Leonard Schecter, Jim Bouton, Charlotte Curtis, Gloria Steinem, Jack Newfield, I.F. Stone, and Seymour Hersh. Noon-8, April 23 and 10-8, April 24. Martin Luther King Labor Center, 310 W. 43 St., New York. Open to the public and free. (Get there early...