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...proliferation of manuals romanticizing death troubles social workers and doctors who are intent on preventing suicide among healthy people, as well as those clergymen who oppose suicide for any reason at all. The worst offender is France's Suicide: Operating Instructions, by Claude Guillon and Yves Le Bonniec, a pair of anarchists who, with ineffable Gallic logic, have equated the act of suicide with revolt against the established order. Their book, which explains how to forge doctors' prescriptions for lethal drugs, has attracted more than 100,000 French readers and has provoked denunciations by scores of physicians...
...publication on the grounds that the right to commit suicide is inalienable and that the book only furnishes the "means to execute" it. That's an argument shunned by even most euthanasia societies, several of which quietly produce and selectively distribute similar booklets. The two authors, Claude Gillon and Yves le Bonnied, are more sensible. They refuse all interviews. They know, after all, that they can legally get away with printing the book; France has no laws against aiding suicide. Legally, the authors are sitting pretty, and it will undoubtedly take time for even the most passionately angry interest group...
...facts are compelling. As reported in The New York Times Magazine two weeks ago, many of the key purveyors of name wear have dipped their digits into the pool of men's under things. These include Yves Saint Laurent, Christian Dior and Bloomingdale's. Pierre Cardin, who has been called the ITT of designer merchandise, is readying his line, and even poor cousin Jockey, in an effort to clothe itself in the celebrity which accompanies designer wear has placed shots of largely unclothed Orioles' pitcher Jim Palmer in a number of national magazines...
...YVES MONTAND...
...Metropolitan Opera House obviously did not believe it. When the jaunty man in the black vest and open-necked shirt sauntered out from the wings, it was April in Paris and the giant stage was a boulevard: for the first time in nearly a quarter of a century, Yves Montand is once again on tour in America...