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Divorced. Madeleine Carroll, 59, beauteous British-born star of the 1930s and '40s (The Thirty-Nine Steps, Café Society); by Andrew Heiskell, 49, board chairman of Time Inc.; on grounds of desertion; after 15 years of marriage, one child; in Litchfield, Conn...
...casualties totaled over 1 ,000 Vietnamese and a score of Americans in one of the worst weeks of the long war against the Viet Cong. Tall bottles of Krug champagne stood at attention next to Long John Scotch in the windows of shops filled with luxury goods, and the cafés and milk bars were jammed with clothes-conscious students oblivious to the squawk of loudspeakers in planes flying overhead commanding all males between 20 and 25 not yet under arms to register for the draft...
...last week President Humberto Castello Branco and his revolutionaries had dealt forcibly with the first two. Inflation is proving far more difficult. Nowhere in Latin America is inflation so deeply and strongly rooted -until it has become as much a part of Brazil as carnival and the inky cafè-zinho Brazilians sip at corner coffee bars...
...Ph.D. Op artists often work in teams. Vasarely's son, yclept Yvaral, has helped him start the Groupe de Recherche d'Art Visuel in Paris-six researchers who resemble the Atomic Energy Commission more than café-sitting artists. Germany boasts a group called Zero, begun in 1959 by three artists who hold Ph.D. degrees; they call for "new idealism" as opposed to the "new realism" of pop. The Italians have two op groups, the Gruppo N in Padua and the Gruppo T in Milan, which hopes to "codify visual phenomena, just as music was codified into notes...
Spreading Blame. The boycotters spent the rest of the morning picketing the café with signs, "Don't pay more today than you paid yesterday." Later, they pitched a tent on the sidewalk and started selling their own coffee at 25 paise a cup. Soon a Price Resistance Committee was organized to spread the boycott to other restaurants and shops. Among the joiners were Chidambaram Subramaniam, India's Food Minister, and Asoka Mehta, deputy chairman of India's Planning Commission...