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Genuine Scare. A few weeks ago, De Gaulle instructed Finance Minister Valery Giscard d'Estaing to strike the U.S. on its soft, golden underbelly. Giscard undertook the task with some pleasure: he was still smarting from his rebuff by U.S. and British moneymen at last fall's meeting of the International Monetary Fund in Tokyo, where he tried to get the IMF to adopt a new international currency based on gold that would favor the French. During last month's British money crisis he also got a genuine scare that both the pound and the dollar might...
Ferré became established as his own best interpreter only after he met his wife Madeleine in 1950. For years he had been down and out in Paris, playing and singing for $2 a night and composing on the side. "Operation Madeleine," as he calls the metamorphosis he undertook after his marriage, promptly rescued his career. He took off his glasses, got his teeth capped, cut his hair-and immediately found a whole new audience. Now at 47, he owns an island in Brittany, a house in the south of France, an apartment in Paris and an American...
...weather, construction, delays, and finally a complete shutdown in building kept the courts from being finished anywhere near their December 1 deadline. In mid-March the Long Island company which originally undertook construction ran into difficulties and called its workers...
...given a topic which is sacred to many, embarrassing to some, and intensely personal to everyone. But we are heartened by the objections almost as much as by the praise, for it is indifference that hurts most in morals as much as in journalism. One reason why TIME undertook this story was precisely because so many Americans in recent times have seemed morally indifferent and unshockable; to judge from the response, there are still a great many who are neither...
...Being, Being-Itself, The Demoniac, and the Eternal Kaires. In the end, these cosmic structures, along with his analysis of what man and history really are, come together "within a system that comprise the whole of man's interpretation of himself and the meaning of his life, which I undertook to develop in my Systematic Theology." A phenomenal accomplishment...