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Paris Match called the idea a "new Trafalgar," and reported (probably inaccurately) that $1 billion had flowed out of France toward Switzerland in the one day after the bill was proposed. The powerful Socialist and Communist opposition parties condemned the measure for containing too many loopholes favoring the rich. The Communists have even been acting as defenders of middle-class property-especially over the part of Giscard's proposal that calls for taxes on the sale of vacation homes, the résidences secondaires owned by 14 million...
...emergency took hold, the bright lights of Piccadilly Circus and Trafalgar Square were dimmed in order to conserve electricity. TIME asked British Satirist and Author Auberon Waugh (son of Novelist Evelyn Waugh) to comment on the mood of the nation in the midst of its latest eco nomic crises. His acerbic reflections, which represent a sig nificant minority opinion in Britain...
Throughout the rest of the day, squad cars and ambulances chased through the city, evacuating buildings and trying to deal with a rash of hoaxes; the rumored targets included Windsor Castle and the Royal Opera House. Police blocked off Trafalgar Square for several hours and, taking no chances, exploded four locked suitcases that were found on the steps of the National Gallery; the suitcases, as it turned out, contained old clothing...
...showdown was staged a fortnight ago in the chandeliered Nelson Room of the Trafalgar Tavern hard by the Thames in Greenwich. The Americans had barely unpacked their darts when the wily British indulged in a bit of ye olde "putting off" (psyching your opponent). The white toe-line, they announced, would be set 7 ft. 6 in. from the board and not 8 ft. as in the U.S. U.S. Darter Jack Carr, 39, a pub owner from Hermosa Beach, Calif., responded with some putting off of his own. "We'll continue to shoot from 8 ft.," he said gallantly...
...feet high, slowly opens during the day and shuts during the night. In Chicago, a clothespin stands where the Tribune Tower once was. In London, Nelson's Column has been replaced by a giant gearshift, which twitches and gyrates erratically through its patterns, scaring the pigeons away from Trafalgar Square forevermore. Have we all been colonized by the Brobdingnagians? Not quite. Claes Oldenburg is at work, and an exhibition of his imaginary monsters, entitled Object into Monument, is now touring the U.S. After a first run at the Pasadena Art Museum in California, the show opens next week...