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...unblended note in the proceed ings was struck by a Parisian toxicologist who tactlessly told the audience that "un deniably, the immoderate use of tobacco threatens the health." But although Presi dent Charles de Gaulle (once a two-pack-a-day man) long ago swore off smoking on doctors' advice, the toxicologist's speech, unlike the rest of the festivities, was not broadcast over France's govern ment-owned radio-TV network. For to bacco has been a government monopoly in France since 1811, when Napoleon noticed an ostentatiously bejeweled woman at a Tuileries ball and then...
...bath or opium den to which one goes for a faintly wicked and figuratively supine little debauch . . . Pre sumably Miss Novak as Medea would raise him to the heights of Kimiolatry." . . . In her modest home by a Southern California orange grove, Hannah Nixon, 75, widowed mother of the Vice Presi dent, was chatting about her famous son. The first thing she made clear about Richard Milhous Nixon : "I never called him Dick. He just seems like a Richard to me."- Turning back to Nixon's childhood, she recalled: "When he was a boy, he looked up to Mr. Everett...
Students at the University, the Presi- dent continued, now have "a deeper understanding of what a church is." He attributed this to the widespread discussion of the past several weeks, a discussion for which he is now "profoundly thankful...
...want them balanced too." A typical well-balanced group is this year's freshman class at Yale. Of 1,031 boys, 506 were captains of varsity teams or won varsity letters, 228 were editors of their school papers, 114 were editors of their yearbooks, 178 were either presi dents of their student councils or of their senior classes...
...Paramount brought out a collection of President Eisenhower's speeches, from D-day to his announcement of seeking a second term, already has sold 5,500 copies at $3.98. Book publisher Doubleday started its Dolphin division pressing records by sophisticated theater, nightclub and television stars. Last week Columbia Presi dent Goddard Lieberson, who induced CBS Chairman William S. Paley to back Fair Lady, took the company's headiest step yet. He issued a recording of the complete dialogue from the surrealistic play, Waiting for Godot, starring Comedian Bert Lahr...