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Paris finds itself swept up in a craze for chestnut-brown color that is being called "La folie du marron." While high-fashion arbiters were favoring basic black, buyers last summer began ordering their ready-to-wear dresses and suits in brown. Manufacturers took note, but no one imagined how far the dye would be cast...
...talent was in evidence Saturday night. Adams is a musician who knows what he wants. His conducting alternates between the subtle and the demonstrative, with a youthful tendency to exaggerate contrasts. In the Haydn Symphony No. 99 he turned sforzandi into Beethovenian Hammerschlage, while in Milhaud's La Creation du Monde the battery of percussion often overwhelmed the rest of the ensemble in periodic fits of exuberance...
Into Europe. None seem called for. Profits may not be as high as management might like, but I.C.I., the world's second largest chemical manufacturer (after Du Pont), has revitalized itself in the face of increasing competition and falling world prices in key chemicals. Under Chambers, an economist, the company brought in a U.S. management-consultant firm to streamline its organization, moved more vigorously into plastics and synthetic fibers, expanded research in such products as weed killers, antimalarial drugs and fertilizers. Chambers also prodded I.C.I.'s eight product divisions and 257 subsidiaries into becoming more aggressive in staking...
...investment abroad in 1965, hitting the European capital market through a Luxembourg holding company came into vogue among U.S. companies. Mobil Oil, the first to be enticed, organized Mobil Oil Holdings, S.A., and in June 1965 floated a $28 million bond issue to finance foreign operations. Uniroyal, Bankers Trust, Du Pont, Alcoa, Honeywell, ITT, and Standard Oil (Indiana), among others, followed Mobil's lead...
...more lasting fame: Marie Duplessis was the prototype for the heroines of Dumas' La Dame aux camelias and La Traviata; Blanche d'Antigny was transformed by Zola into Nana and Apollonie Sabatier was the real-life la Muse et la Madone of Baudelaire's Les Flews du nuil. If these coquettes shared a single trait, it was by no means beauty but an indomitable will to succeed and the ability to overcome natural handicaps. A practical sort was Blanche d'Antigny. An inordinately heavy sleeper, she found early in her career that a chance admirer...