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...first television demonstration, Jascha Heifetz recorded on one of the first "primitive" hi-fi systems, and Sam Warner made the first "talkie"-is peculiarly suitable, with its 10-ft. to 16-ft. ceilings, a cafeteria and an auditorium, all features that Architect Richard Meier hopes to preserve in the ren ovation. Tenants, to be screened by a citizens' committee, will be able to rent units at approximately $110 a month...
This song is heard these days in the rugged jungle country of southeastern Bolivia, where it is sung by a band of Castro-style guerrillas who are harassing the eleven-month-old regime of President René Barrientos. Though they number only about 100 men (some say as few as 60), the guerrillas have caused consternation in the Bolivian government and army. At first, Bolivia's army promised a speedy campaign and victory over the guerrillas. But it has found them so tough and elusive that President Barrientos three weeks ago even asked neighboring Argentina to send in some...
When aerial hijackers delivered Moise Tshombe to an Algerian jail this month, his wife turned to one of the few men who might have saved her husband from extradition to the Congo-and almost certain death. Parisian Lawyer René Edmond Floriot, 64, faced appalling odds: the Congolese had already convicted Tshombe of not only treason but also murder and robbery. With eloquence, Floriot contended that the Congolese had actually amnestied Tshombe last fall. But last week he lost...
Catherine Lacoste, 22, is a fair-to-middling horseback rider, an energetic handball, volleyball and basketball player, a strong bowler and-by her own admission-a "lousy" tennis player. Which may be a source of some disappointment to her father René, who as France's famed "Crocodile" of the 1920s, twice won the U.S. and Wimbledon championships. But girls are supposed to take after their mothers anyway, and Catherine's mother, the former Simone Thion de la Chaume, is a golfer-the winner of six French amateur titles. Last week, at the Cascades Golf Club...
...RENÉE M. CARTIER Detroit