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...place (behind Renault and Citroen) with his bargain-priced ($1,200) Aronde sedan, by forbidding his workers to join the national unions, and by merging with Ford's French subsidiary in 1954 and subsequently selling the controlling interest to Chrysler in 1963; of a heart attack; in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France...
...taken to burying many of the things that are important to him: his business records, the gold that backs his money, his nuclear missiles, and in some instances even his factories and food supply. Beneath a land that is be coming increasingly crowded on the sur face, he has also buried the tubes through which flow much of his source of energy. Nowhere is this truer than in the U.S., where underground pipes now carry 42% of all the nation's energy fuels in a vast network that stretches four times the length of all its railroads...
...founded the annual charity ball in New York 13 years ago, and just to be a little different, ended up scheduling it for October. But 1,300 Manhattan socialites, who paid $150 a ticket, made it the kind of blast Elsa would have liked. The theme was Une Nuit sur la Côte d'Azur, in honor of the old girl's favorite playground, and Cannes' Whisky à GoGo discothèque was faithfully reproduced while French-born Decorations Chairwoman Jeanine Levitt looked like an ondine from the Riviera in a sapphire-studded Griffe...
Much Experience. Bebel was born in Neuilly-sur-Seine, a fairly expensive Paris suburb, but he grew up on the Left Bank, and his colloquial language could have been swept up off the cobblestones of St.-Germain-des-Pres and Montparnasse. His father was a sculptor who taught at the Academic des Beaux-Arts...
Bauer is shocked that the Orioles sur prise anyone. After all, it is a simple matter of psychology. "Some guys respond only when you crack down on them," he says. "Others you might have to pat on the tail. Still others do best if you first give them some bull and then lower the boom...