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...illuminated at night. Vestiges of the mother of medieval abbeys-the Abbey of St. Peter and St. Paul at Cluny, established in 910?still stand. Cluny, together with the 11th century Church of St. Philibert at Tournus and that acropolis of Middle Ages Christianity, the Basilica at V??zelay, along with Burgundy's 505 other churches, are among Europe's great treasures of romanesque architecture...
...enshrined in laws that require Washington and Ottawa to work always for the highest possible employment. In other nations the commitment is tacit but nonetheless binding; the French government, for instance, lives in fear that even a slight rise in unemployment could touch off another round of les év??nements de mai ?the near-revolution...
...Manhattan last week, calls it a "contemporary love story." It begins where romantic movies used to end?with the snuggling in the percales. After that, the script lightly flicks such switched-on subjects as astrology, hippies, fags, the Pill, Jean-Luc Godard's Weekend, May-September adultery, cinéma v??rité film makers and, just for laughs, itself. From time to time, for example, it underlines the dialogue with subtitles...
Optimistic observers of the Paris conference refused to be depressed. It was pointed out that bristle-headed Dr. V??gler was an avowed Nationalist, that he had from the first refused to agree to any payments beyond 37 years, that he was directly responsible to the Ruhr industrialists, who were determined to make no concessions to the Creditor Powers. Optimists felt that Dr. Ludwig Kastl, the German delegate who succeeds Dr. V??gler, would be easier to deal with...
...resignation of Dr. V??gler did not at once bring about the warm spirit of co-operation among the German delegation which Parisian optimists hoped for. Dr. Schacht returned from his meditations still truculent. The German delegation, he said, could make no further compromise...