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...REAL CHANGE, was plastered on the walls of hundreds of booths displaying such gastronomical luxuries as pate de foie gras from the Gascogne and oysters from Arcachon. The scene was the annual ideological carnival sponsored by the Communist daily L'Humanité last week in the Paris suburb of La Courneuve-a uniquely Gallic blend of gourmet food, Marxist rhetoric and midway attractions. Nearly 9,300 new members were signed up during the two-day Red fete, which was attended by 1.5 million people. Boasted one party recruiter: "Ours is a Communism with joie de vivre...
Veterinarian George Beatty operates a small animal hospital on a 1¼-acre plot in the Chicago suburb of Palatine, Ill. This year his real estate taxes jumped from $4,200 to $14,000 to help pay for a new school. "I don't mind paying taxes if they are reasonable," he moans, "but this is ridiculous...
...rich roots have been unearthed by Debrett's, the famed English tracers of lineage. Pursuing genealogical research for another, undisclosed American Carter, Debrett's has tracked Jimmy's forebears back to 1361 and King's Langley, a quaint Hertfordshire village that is now a commuter suburb, 18 miles north of London. The prospering yeoman family at one time owned Jefferies farm in nearby Chipperfield (the Chip Carter connection?), and the King's Langley church has a brass plaque in memory of Ancestor John Carter, departed this world in 1588. Another Carter, also named John, made...
...Hamburg lawyer who had been his boyhood friend. She was bearing a bouquet of red roses. So it was that the chairman of the Dresdener Bank, West Germany's second largest, stopped packing long enough to receive Albrecht at his 30-room villa in the wealthy Frankfurt suburb of Oberursel. With her through the iron gate came another young woman and a young man in a gray flannel suit...
...season's troubles started when Frank Collin, self-styled Fuhrer of a tiny Chicago-based Nazi splinter group called the National Socialist Party of America, announced plans for a May 1 parade through Skokie, a heavily Jewish suburb north of Chicago. Some 7,000 survivors of World War II Nazi concentration camps live in the village. Skokie authorities swiftly banned the demonstration, and militant Jewish Defense League spokesmen promised to keep the Nazi marchers out with force...