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...subject of these remarks is France's first great experiment in open admissions education, the "University of Paris VIII," better known as Vincennes because it is housed in the former royal hunting forest at the eastern end of the Paris Metro line. Even when Vincennes opened in 1970, the campus was Sixties Squalid. Today the school is an ill-repaired set of buildings and classrooms with barely a wall not defaced by leftist posters or spray-painted slogans: SHAH ASSASSIN! I HATE COPS. SOLIDARITY WITH NICARAGUA...
...while the stations objected to the commercials, they had no objection to Mobil's top-quality program offering, which follows the celebrated romance and abdication of Britain's King Edward VIII. In fact, the stations made every effort to hold on to the six-part British-produced series. "We offered to let them substitute other commercials," Ryan says, "We recommended that they run the same ads they ran in their showcase series last year. We even offered to help them shoot new ads, if necessary." But Mobil refused the offers and withdrew from the stations its purchases...
...commercials, which defend the high profits of oil companies, among other things, are attached to Edward and Mrs. Simpson, a six-part British-made and Mobil-syndicated series about the romance that led to the abdication of King Edward VIII. No one objects to the series, but officials at three stations owned by the Washington Post-Newsweek broadcast group-in Jacksonville, Detroit and Hartford-told Mobil that the ads violated their ban against advocacy commercials. "We believe that controversial issues should be dealt with in our news and public affairs programs," says Amy McComb, manager of Jacksonville's WJXT...
...good champagne, a soupçon of pineapple juice, a splash of Cointreau, 12 oz. of soda and a tsp. of sugar). Heim, who speaks 14 languages, newly enjoys, as apostolic delegate, diplomatic status granted by the British government, healing a breach opened with the Roman church by Henry VIII; his credentials as a gourmet have been accepted by such distinguished dinner guests as Donald Coggan, the Archbishop of Canterbury, Foreign Minister Lord Carrington and Elizabeth, the Queen Mother. Heim's homily to all his guests: Use only white wine in your recipes...
EDWARD & MRS. SIMPSON (syndicated stations, Wednesdays, beginning Jan. 23.) Kings of England have been deposed, murdered and executed. One, poor George III, was even confined for mad ness. But until 1936 none had voluntarily renounced his throne. That dubious dis tinction was left to Edward VIII, who reigned for exactly 325 days and then gave up his crown for "the woman I love," a Baltimore divorcee by the name of Wallis Warfield Simpson...