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...resemblance was sufficient, in fact, to launch Mireille on a career that has become, as one French magazine termed it, "a tornado, a cyclone, a cataclysm." Dressed in the death-wish black that was Piaf's trademark, she caused a sensation at Paris' Olympia music hall singing the plaintive ballads that made "the Sparrow of the Streets" a national idol until her death in 1963. Soon Mireille's recordings were topping the bestseller lists; this summer she sang 64 consecutive sellout concerts in the provinces, outdrawing all other French and foreign singers. Last month her pixyish face...
Pragmatic & Positive. "I respect our Republican members of Congress," Evans told New York Timesman Tom Wicker during an interview in Olympia, the capital, "but they are a minority. They can't really take the lead in solving problems. And when they do have constructive suggestions, the Democratic majority can and does take them over as their own. So it's only our Republican Governors who can really be positive leaders today. This gives them a real opportunity. The Governors are in a position to recognize the problems of their states and then take the lead in doing something...
...persuaded to work harder? "Ban chairs in coffeehouses." How can tourism be encouraged in Greece? "This summer thousands of foreigners will cross our frontiers. Some will be concerned only with antiquity, others with the contemporary. Personal tastes will keep one traveler from going to Delphi, another from seeing Olympia; but everyone will be going to the lavatory. The nation's lavatories must be improved so that all those freshly scrubbed people will not turn up their noses...
...eyebrow. In France, it's something new, and that helps to explain why Antoine is the biggest thing there since Scotch. His records are out selling Charles Aznavour, Yves Montand and Johnny Hallyday combined. Wherever he goes, the kids-the girls, especially - engulf him. At Paris' Olympia Music Hall, it took 35 flics to keep back the girls, who retaliated by littering the stage with their panties. "Never in French show business," marvels Maurice Chevalier, who ought to know, "has an artist reached the top so fast." It may be carrying art too far to call Antoine...
...both ministers decided that it would be best if Holy Cross's Lutherans become Episcopalians. The councils of the two churches then drew up a formal merger plan. If all goes well, the Lutherans of Holy Cross plan to be confirmed by Episcopal Bishop Ivol Ira Curtis of Olympia, while Apman will seek ordination as an Episcopal priest...