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...agents, one of whom still holds an important position in the Rabat government; the other is reportedly still a Moroccan intelligence official. According to one of TIME'S sources, Ben Barka's body was interred in the garden of a villa at Fontenay-le-Vicomte, a Paris suburb; 16 days later, for fear that inquisitive French police might discover it, the corpse was hastily exhumed and reburied on the southeast bank of the Ile de la Grande Jatte opposite the Boulevard General Leclerc, in another Paris suburb, Neuilly-sur-Seine...
...prolific work is to trace the history of twentieth century aesthetics, and the development of an art that tries to embody concepts--non-objective art. Born in 1871 in Czechoslovakia, Kupka came to Paris, the center of artistic activity in 1896, and soon settled down in the suburb of Puteaux, where he lived the rest of his life...
...common legal tactics for controlling parlors is strict "regulation." Falls Church, Va., a Washington suburb, requires massage parlors to pay a whopping $5,000 annual fee and masseuses to take 1,000 hours of training. Since such requirements are clearly open to legal challenge, some cities are attempting to use zoning laws as weapons. New York City, which has some 70 parlors in Manhattan, may soon try zoning with a twist-massage parlors would be legal in the western section of midtown only if attached to a community facility or a hotel with 200 rooms or more. Even then, however...
Waugh's youth was by no means blighted. His family was congenial-his father Arthur ran a small but prestigious publishing house-and lived comfortably in a London suburb, amid books and talk of books. The adolescent Evelyn saw Oxford as a kind of enchanted kingdom. For a time he became one of its leading fauns, an aesthete shuttling between Hamletic conversation and Falstaffian drinking. After graduation, Waugh had a desultory try at being an artist. Failing at that, he became a teacher at third-rate boarding schools. He began a book, informing the curious that he was writing...
...Ehrlichman is a portly 205-pounder with a thick salt-and-pepper beard. He lives apart from his wife Jeanne, now in a Seattle suburb with one of their five children, and is said to squire around several Santa Fe women. He says he spends half of every day on volunteer work for schools, churches and Indians. He often visits the trout streams near Taos to fish...