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...adapted dresses designed by smart French and Italian couturiers and put them into mass production at off-the-peg prices ($35 for a suit, $9 for a dress). Glossy women's magazines filled with how-to-do-it beauty articles have proliferated and prospered. Any hairdresser styling himself "René of Paris" or "André of Mayfair" does a roaring business...
...hardware store opposite Algiers' town hall, right-wing settlers formed a new "Front de l'Algérie Francaise" dedicated to "keeping Algeria in the Republic," within three days declared they had signed up 100,000 members-including several hundred army officers. Threatened Algerian Deputy René Vinciguerra: "Let De Gaulle see Ferhat Abbas in Paris. We don't mind. But the minute he allows Abbas back in Algeria, we will really move...
Lost Scalp. In the eyes of even his closest supporters, Kishi was finished. Against him were ranged the Socialists, the Communists, the hot-eyed Zengaku-ren students. Every Tokyo newspaper, except the English-language Japan Times, called for his scalp. In his own faction-ridden Liberal Democratic Party, knives were being sharpened as the politicos dreamed of artfully seizing the premiership-just as Kishi himself had captured the post three years before...
...Paepcke had hit upon the idea of illustrating the "Great Ideas of Western Man" in a series of ads painted by top artists. It was a gallery open to millions-and millions came to know for the first time everyone from Ben Shahn and Gyorgy Kepes to Surrealist René Magritte...
...affair with Poupette as "an adventure neither of us took seriously." He conceded that he had already given her up in October 1957 - months before his father's murder - and had become engaged to an other girl, to whom he is now married. Jaccoud's attorney, flamboyant René Floriot, star criminal lawyer of the Paris bar, got André's agreement that he had had no dealings with Linda since his engagement...