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...amuserais, oui, je m'amuserais...
Died. Ernest Henderson, 70, co-founder and for 30 years boss of Sheraton Hotels, world's largest chain; of a heart attack; in Boston. Sparely built and quiet, Henderson and his Harvarc roommate, Robert Moore, started oui in 1919 with a small import and radio business, then during the Depression gambled $10,000 to buy a faltering Boston investment firm; by taking advantage of low prices, they gobbled up properties that totaled $30 million by 1939-including Boston's Sheraton, which became the namesake of an evergrowing chain of businessmen-oriented hotels that today numbers...
Unanswered Question. After three sessions with De Gaulle, Wilson and Brown flew home. "The meetings went better in some respects than might have been expected," Wilson told Commons He conceded that the general had given no indication whether he would say oui or non if Britain made formal application for market membership-which it intends to do by spring. The aftersounds from Pans were discouraging. Foreign Minister Couve de Murville hinted that Britain still seemed too preoccupied with faraway commitments to qualify for De Gaulle's Europe. Undiscouraged, Wilson planned to continue his present round of Common Market capitals...
...bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth. Beneath my skin, my flesh begins to rot, and my bones stick oui like teeth...
...named Theodore Roubanis, only to turn up in Paris last week with a more mature companion, Photographer Cyril Morange, 25. They are now blissfully ensconced in Jeanne's country house, and throughout France the middle-aged men are singing a variation on the old Piaf standard: Oui, je regrette quelquechose...