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Loss of Innocence. A thriller of sensibility, based on Rumer Godden's novel The Greengage Summer, celebrates a sophisticated rite of puberty in a French château...
Lady Bird Johnson now has something impressive: a twelve-room, French château-style house in Washington's Spring Valley section. Its previous owner, party-giving Perle Mesta, grandly dubbed it Les Ormes (The Elms), decorated it with all kinds of French furniture, tapestries and bric-a-brac. The Washington word was that Perle had been asking $200,000. The Johnsons paid something closer to $160,000, and Englished its name to The Elms. "Every time somebody calls it a château, I lose 50,000 votes back in Texas," sighed Lyndon...
...goes there on holiday with her mother, who falls seriously ill on the way and is rushed off to the nearest hospital. Joss (Susannah York) and the three smaller children put up at a pretty pension in the country-actually a small chaāteau done over. Drōle de ménage. The mistress of the establishment, a pretty spinster (Danielle Darrieux) of a certain age, is in love with the star boarder (Kenneth More), a dashing Englishman who instantly appoints himself acting uncle to the children, fighting their battles with the help and taking them for drives...
...World War I began in Europe, Sergeant Major Smith reluctantly refused a commission in the Regular Army because his family could not afford to buy his uniforms. But after the U.S. entered the war, he won his shoulder bars, and as a young shavetail, he fought at Château-Thierry and in the third Battle of the Marne...
Last week Doug Dillon, the Harvard-accented scion of Cháteau Haut-Brion,* gave a typical performance before the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee. At issue was the restoration of a $16.9 million appropriation to hire 2,500 additional tax collectors that the House had cut from Treasury's budget. Because the Internal Revenue Service is understaffed, argued Dillon, more than $24 billion in personal income went unreported and untaxed in 1959; the Government's share of that hidden wealth would be more than enough to balance the budget. As usual, Dillon appeared without a retinue of aides...