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...simultaneously pluck, pound, tingle and bow musical instruments as church bells rang and neighborhood salsa bands played. Right on cue, 5 million French joined in an exuberant celebration that banged on from 8:30 p.m. until well past midnight. Lang has filled the once empty courtyard of Paris' staid Louvre museum with exhibitions of new French fashions, displayed to the thump of disco rhythms. A troupe from the Comédie Française has played in the Paris subways. Still to come are an ambitious new "people's" opera house for the Place de la Bastille...
...sale of the Herald saves Boston, the nation's tenth largest metropolitan area, from the dubious distinction of becoming the biggest city with just one major paper. Instead, the staid, august Globe faces the possibility of a no-holds-barred newspaper war. Murdoch has pledged to invest $15 million in the Herald American. Said a senior Herald editor: "This will cost the Globe millions. They will have to fight." Globe Publisher William O. Taylor, whose family has operated the paper for more than a century, canceled a trip to Seattle this week and said, "I will be right here...
...staid predictability of Bonn politics quickly took on the intrigue of a Florentine court last week. Initially, Kohl was confident that former Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher, leader of the centrist Free Democrats who bolted Schmidt's government, could deliver at least 33 votes from his party's 51 members of parliament. This total would provide Kohl 259 votes, when added to the 226 of his coalition. Schmidt's S.P.D. has only 215 seats, and depended on heavy Free Democrat support to stay in office. Kohl and Genscher had been talking quietly of creating a new center...
...human limbs out of the lab so we could throw them at McNamara and rejecting all suggestions that we settle for bones from the butcher shop and chicken blood--'no symbols,' I said." There are always wild-eyed revolutionaries at Harvard, but this was the vice-president of the staid Signet Society, the managing editor of the Advocate...
...Month Club. A key associate was William Rose Benet, a Pulitzer-prize-winning poet. In 1940, control passed to Norman Cousins, then 25, whose editorial interests took in the sciences, travel, the music-recording business and, above all, politics. A dedicated liberal activist, he used SR's once staid pages to crusade for U.S. medical treatment for the "Hiroshima maidens" in the 1940s, for disarmament in the 1950s, for aid to rebuild a Vietnamese village ravaged by U.S. Marines in the 1960s. But he always proved a shrewd salesman; his special sections on topics such as education and stereo...