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City-proud Parisians often grumble that the U-shaped sprawl of prefabs surrounding their Palais de Chaillot is an architectural eyesore that ought to be removed. It houses NATO's Secretariat. Last week NATO was under notice from the Parisian city fathers to vacate its premises and move to a less conspicuous spot outside the city. To NATO's detractors, the notice seemed symbolic of the fact that many Europeans, conceding that NATO is here to stay, increasingly prefer to keep it out of sight and out of mind...
...gifts going to the winner are: a bracelet from Diana Christine: a Parisian silk scarf from Elaine Claire; a blouse from the Town and Travel Shop: a copy of the Betty Crocker giant cook book from the Harvard Book Store...
...Gustave Singier is a highly sophisticated Parisian whose debt to Wassily Kandinsky is obvious. Like many Kandinskys, Singier's Homage to Ravel is made of neat snippets of color, tossing and crossing in cool space...
Next step will be to get member nations to vote the money. For purse-poor UNESCO, this may take some doing. The architects are also bracing for a possible fuss from architecturally conservative Parisians. To avoid conflict with existing styles nearer midcity, the building is to be set at the edge of the Bois de Boulogne; but Parisian reaction cannot be taken for granted. Said French Architect Zehrfuss: "They're noted bellyachers...
...married woman and swamped by the first rush of passion. In Awakening, Jean-Baptiste Rossi, 16, told a startling but sensitive story of a love affair between a youngster and a Roman Catholic nun. In The Illusionist (written three years ago) 22-year-old Françoise Mallet, a Parisian housewife and mother, tells perhaps the strangest tale of all, that of a 15-year-old girl who falls in love with her father's mistress. When the book appeared in France last year, the weekly Le Peuple spoke for most of the critics when it said: "The Illusionist...