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...Geneva meeting of EFTA's consultative committee and at next month's meeting of EFTA's ministerial council. Largely because Britain has been shocked into realizing that EFTA's death would badly damage its own trade drive, the British are expected to at least trim the surcharge within the next few months...
Louis XIII furniture is dark, heavy and austere, and as such has much in common with massive Spanish cabinetry, which is also coming back into vogue. Both mix well with the trim structural look of modern furnishings. Painter Pierre Soulages took a fancy to Louis XIII, and Manhattan Art Collector and Banker Robert Lehman uses it to accent his apartment. Dior's top designer, Marc Bohan, redecorated his apartment in the period. "I like things simple, austere even," he says. "It's my style. Also the soft, neutral colors of Louis Treize suit me." As different a type...
...Calif., opened this week and out rolled the first U.S. entry in a rising competition among international planemakers. The competition is a struggle to win the huge potential market for short-to medium-range jets for the world's airlines. The U.S. plane is the DC-9, a trim, red-white-and-blue craft that Douglas has rushed out a month ahead of schedule. And just in time, too: the British twin-jet BAC One-Eleven has been flying away with the orders...
...inefficiency, Beeching was technical director of Imperial Chemical Industries when the Conservatives called him in 1961 and gave him a free hand to put the rails on a paying basis. His unsentimental and sound plan: close 352 branch lines, 5,000 miles of track and 2,363 stations, and trim the payroll by 70,000 workers over five years...
...rejuvenating 160 acres of Cleveland, is master planner with vast authority of a $200 million reconstruction project in Boston, has a say-so in the downtown redevelopments in Los Angeles, Oklahoma City, Providence and Columbus. Winning a Federal Aviation Agency commission, Pei has designed a universal trim, pentagonal control tower now being installed in at least 25 U.S. airports. More than any other architect, Pei is engaged in a vast revamping of the U.S. cityscape...