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Flattened Curve? One big trouble with the auto workers' G.A.W. is that there are so many possible variations that no one knows just how much it would cost. Automen have had actuaries working on the project for two years, and reckon the cost might run as high as $5 billion in the first year. But the biggest problem is the one the union also fears the most: seasonal fluctuations in auto sales...
...shuttling among them, he hopes to address 200,000 people in a single afternoon. Nominally a Gaullist, Pierre Poujade disclaims political ambition but he is rapidly becoming a political force to reckon with. He affects to despise the National Assembly and all its present membership. "They closed all the brothels in France but left the biggest one open," he says scornfully...
...Mary Welsh Hemingway, 46, an indefatigable former newspaper and magazine correspondent* from Minnesota, it is a fortunate day when she can reckon by 7 p.m. how many are staying for dinner and by 10 how many for the night. Life at Finca Vigia is, as she once reported it, a "perpetual weekend . . . involving time, space, motion, noise, animals and personalities, always approaching but seldom actually attaining complete uproar...
Within hours of his death, the living began to reckon Matisse's achievements. London Critic T. W. Earp called him "one of painting's lyric poets." In Paris, the French Minister of Education stated that Matisse commanded "the most French of palettes." Jack-of-Arts Jean Cocteau went further without stretching the truth very much: "He was a bright...
CANON OLIVER S. TOMKINS, 46, of Lincoln, England is the theological brain of Evanston. A member of the "Faith and Order Department," he drafted dozens of working papers. Born in China, the son of a clergyman, Tomkins knew the dangers of missionary work from childhood. Says he calmly: "I reckon I'm the last man to have had an uncle eaten by cannibals...