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...traffic was at a standstill, and police reinforcements had been called into action. By such signs, Parisians knew they were witnessing France's newest art-world success, Nuts-and-Bolts Sculptor Césarsar Baldaccini. "Hail, César!" roared Combat. "The Benvenuto Cellini of scrap metal." trumpeted France-Observateur. Wiping his brow, Gallery Owner Bernard beamed: "Even Picasso doesn't pull them in any better...
...Busch. His current novel, about a moneyed San Francisco clan, has ten epigraphs-one at the beginning of each chapter. A Latin proverb assures doubters that the author is classically educated, a quotation from the San Francisco Examiner implies that his feet are solidly on the ground, a scrap from T. S. Eliot warns that there is subtle stuff ahead...
French Line retired the 31-year-old Ile de France last autumn, sold her to a Japanese scrap merchant named Seichi Okada, who for the last few weeks has been collecting $4,000 a day in rent from Andy Stone and MGM. Finally, on location last week in Osaka Bay, the Ile reverberated with strange commands, such as "Open the barndoors on the broads!"* In the first-class staterooms, a collection of extras as mixed as the strays in a Conrad novel-English girls from Kobe, White Russians, Poles, wives of U.S. marines, a French judo expert-had the maritime...
WASHINGTON, May 6--Atty. Gen. William P. Rogers was pictured today as flatly opposed to repeal of the constitutional ban on a president serving more than two terms. He will present this view to the Senate Judiciary Committee, which is considering a move to scrap the 22nd Amendment...
Word went round Detroit that G.M. was ready to scrap well-liked Ed Ragsdale. Finding a replacement was not easy: few of G.M.'s success-conscious comers wanted to take on Buick's woes. One G.M. veep, so the story went, was offered Ragsdale's job, nervously said no: "This is a promotion I don't deserve. Can't you please find somebody else to reward...