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Egyptian President Anwar Sadat received the group not in Cairo, but at his favorite winter vacation spot, Aswan. Sadat was in an amiable mood as he relaxed on a sofa in a salon of the New Cataract Hotel-where Kissinger stayed during the first round of shuttle diplomacy last year-and answered the TIME group's questions. Among them...
...bald really beautiful? Indeed it is -at least in the eyes of a bevy of female beholders. "Bald men seem more intelligent," says Mrs. Jake Garn. Says Soprano Beverly Sills: "There's no doubt they're very sexy." Agrees California Beauty Salon Entrepreneur Aida Grey: "A bald-headed man is very exciting." About eight months ago, in fact, Grey became aware of the new trend (particularly, she notes, among attorneys) and developed a special wax treatment that removes any remnant fringe...
...pains to emphasize that it was not a summit in the usual sense, and he had asked that each leader look on it as if it were a meeting of his own domestic Cabinet. Only the heads of government and their foreign ministers attended the main meetings in the Salon de 1'Horloge of the Quai d'Orsay; in the past, delegations often numbered 20 or more. There was also a concerted and largely successful effort to ensure a kind of Cabinet secrecy by barring the usual leaks to the press. Protocol was kept to a minimum...
...Salon Savants. If, as his critics maintain, the gossip implies that the President may be a bit too indolent in office, it also suggests that he is indefatigable outside it. Since the family has remained at Giscard's old house at 11 Rue de Benouville, while he sleeps most nights at the Elysée Palace, rumors have inevitably floated about presidential liaisons. Salon savants have linked him with at least one actress, one photographer and two princesses (one domestic, one foreign). Italian Princess Domietta Hercolani and French Photographer Marie-Laure de Decker are the only two who have...
...Walter Lippmann, 1969 He could have held his own in an 18th century salon or coffeehouse, spar ring civilly with the prophets of the Enlightenment. His faith in the dispassion ate application of reason to the muddle of human affairs was no less firm than Voltaire's. His prowess at drawing his tory's sweep from the minutiae of daily events might have impressed even Gibbon. Had they discoursed on politics, he and Edmund Burke would have found themselves on the same aloof Olympian plane...