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...year ago, Mireille Mathieu was just another unknown teen-ager trying her luck on a French TV show called The Game of Chance, an amateur tal ent contest sandwiched between the halves of a rugby match. Standing rigid as a rail, she sang one two-minute song, but it was enough to send a shock wave of recognition through thousands of viewers. That vibrant power, that haunting, husky throb. It was Edith Piaf reincarnate. Even her birdlike dimensions-4 ft. 10 in., 90 Ibs.-matched Piaf's precisely...
Soon after buying the Sacramento Union last May, Publisher Jim Copley began to concentrate his acquisitive tal ents on a bigger paper considerably farther to the west. Copley not only wanted to buy control of the 110-year-old Honolulu Advertiser, he also in tended to make it the main member of his newspaper chain; he even bought an apartment in Hawaii. By last week, though, Copley was convinced that Advertiser Publisher Thurston Twigg-Smith, 45, and Editor George Chaplin, 52, who between them owned about 60% of the paper's stock, were not about to sell...
...founding conference of the United Nations met in San Francisco in 1945, among the Arab representatives were 19 A.U.B. graduates. Today its alumni include the U.N. Ambassadors from Lebanon, Jordan, Kuwait, Syria, Saudi Arabia and Iraq, as well as Sudan President Ismail el Azhari and Jordan Premier Wasfi Tal...
...mier himself, complete down to the wrinkles and warts. Bidding for the 14 drawings was lively enough to bring prices up to $17,346 for a single one. Buyers were mostly private European collectors, who seem to have recaptured some of the enthusiasm of Balzac. To tal take: a staggering...
...because the true size of the loan declines as the borrower pays off in installments, the actual interest is closer to 10½%. Some bankers have cut their customary kickbacks to auto dealers who steer loan customers to them from 1% to ½% of the to tal loan...