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Laura Ashley stores present buyers with a carefully planned atmosphere of gentility: china cups sprinkled with dainty flowers, velvet or taffeta ball gowns with lace collars, ruffled canopy curtains atop four-poster beds. Half of the sales come from women's clothes, the other half from decorating products. The...
Their Maxims all revers'd, I mean to prove,
In taking a tough opening stand, De Gaulle was not only sizing up the rebels but also looking to the nuances of opinion in the forces behind him. General Paul Ely, Gaullist head of France's Joint Chiefs of Staff, is known to believe that negotiations should be long...
The Housemasters, who approved with minor changes the Council and House Committees plan for extending room permissions to 11-p.m. on Fridays and Saturdays, have as yet made no comment on the Administrative Board's revers of their stand. They may possibly express their opinions at the Faculty meeting.
The Ministry of National Defense examined the report in an effort to appraise the damage done by the leak. It concluded that the report, "while of a confidential political character, could not be considered as national defense secrets." Peyre and the other agents with whom he had dealt were released...