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Personal Life. A small man with bulging eyes and pouting lips, Faure succeeds by driving energy, quick wit, and breezy, first-naming familiarity. He lives in deep-carpeted splendor in one of Paris' most fashionable apartment houses with his wife and their two daughters. His energetic wife publishes a political review. La Nef, presides over a salon peopled with avant-garde writers and left-wing intellectual-politicians. Where Mendès whipped men to decision by the scornful lash of his tongue, Faure seeks to cajole. But two months ago Faure flew into a rage when L'Express...
...talk," he says. "The lady thought for sure I'd sold out the nation's birthright to the robber barons. That happens quite a bit with people who haven't learned that conservation today means cutting down trees, not just leaving them to rot in noble splendor...
Harvard's rare books and manuscripts have not always been in air-conditioned, dust-free splendor. John Harvard himself began the collection with a gift of "400 books to the Small college in new Cambridge." Stored in Harvard Hall, the books were safe until a free broke out one January night in 1764. A few books in circulation escaped the fire, but the only present-day survivor from that original library was a copy of John Downame's Christian Warefare Against the Deuill, World, and Flesh. A certain Mr. Briggs had fortunately failed to return the book...
Officially installed as Foreign Minister only a few hours, Edgar Faure was swimming in splendor at the first diplomatic reception of the year one evening last week. Then a journalist approached and drew his attention to a paragraph in L'Express, the news weekly edited by Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber, 31, a Mendés-France adviser who has never liked Faure. In a high moralistic tone, the paragraph hinted that just before quitting the Finance Ministry, Faure had proposed the tax on racehorse sales in favor of wealthy horse owners. Concluded L'Express: "The wall between politics...
Chow with Chou. Chou En-lai gave a cocktail party which Peking radio described as "proceeding in a friendly atmosphere." Later that night, he and tired Dag Hammarskjold dined in private. Talks began next morning in the ornate Hsi Hwa (West Splendor) hall of Peking's Forbidden City. Hammarskjold and Chou, flanked by their advisers, sat on a damask sofa, interspersing their legal arguments with sips of jasmine-scented tea, served in eggshell porcelain cups...