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Before the United Nations Decolonization Committee, Britain's Cecil King reasoned that it was up to the people of Gibraltar to decide for themselves be tween British and Spanish rule; Franco vehemently opposes self-determination for the Rock. King received spirited support from Sir Joshua Hassan, the colony's vigorous, voluble chief minister and a sixth-generation Gibraltarian. Says Sir Joshua: "If we had a plebiscite on whether Gibraltar was to remain British or become Spanish, my only fear would be that we might get a 120% majority for the status...
Thinking in French. The main expression of the tradition is the historic and conscious effort poured into the 69 Lycées Français around the world, known for their scholastic excellence in the mold of the system that in France itself educates 1.5 million students be tween the ages of eleven and 18. Most outsiders, and perhaps many of the parents who pay lycée tuitions ranging from about $6 in Saarbrücken to $200 in Madrid, Istanbul and Mexico City, think of the overseas lycées as largely local institutions. Actually they are supported...
...soon as the curtain dropped on the performance of Bellini's Norma, fist fights erupted, insults bounced be tween boxes, and the grandly helmeted Gardes Républicaines clanked into action. One bejeweled matron tore the glasses off a startled young man next to her; another dug her fingernails into her adversary's Balenciaga décolleté. Dress Designer Yves Saint Laurent dealt his neighbor a smart kick in the shins. Monaco's Princess Grace, along with Charlie Chaplin, his wife and his brood, fled for the exits. Aristotle Onassis and Rudolf Bing stayed...
...delve deep into the music with the sensitive phrasing that distinguishes his playing. Stern and Rose were so perfectly matched that Rose's 1662 Amati cello seemed at times the baritone voice of Stern's Guarnerius violin. In passages in which phrases are repeated alternately be tween them, each provides a mirror of the other in phrasing, tone, even vibrato. Their precision and ease suggests an immense reserve of talent that the evening's program had not required...
...nation showed no serious ill effects. Hundreds of doctors remained defiantly self-exiled in Luxembourg, France and The Neth erlands, protesting the government's fee-fixing medical insurance plan that strike leaders condemn as the first step toward socialized medicine and an unwarranted invasion of the privacy be tween doctor and patient. Despite a number of possibly preventable deaths, and two doctors held for questioning, there was so far no real case against the medical profession for "fatal negligence," thanks largely to the service degarde - a skeleton service set up in major hospitals to handle medical emergencies. It worked...