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...Denver has a natural drawing attraction," Chancellor Chester M. Alter (Ph. D. in chemistry from Harvard, 1934), said, noting that DU is the only private university within a thousand-mile radius touching St. Louis, the West Coast, Dallas, and Canada...
Negotiations will be held in the cream-colored Hotel du Pare, which was chosen mainly because its grounds can be easily closed off by the 1,000 French security police assigned to protect the delegations. The hotel faces the excursion dock in case the F.L.N. representatives-who refused to be quartered on French soil-wish to commute by boat from their Swiss hotels across the lake...
...little disturbed, in a permissive sort of way, when they found that Mrs. Kennedy had chosen Glen Ora. This was a natural reaction, since all of this group had chosen their region for their fox hunting and for their own privacy. The area reeks with Phippses, Ise-lins, Du Fonts, Mellons and Warburgs and others of well-known wealth (those of not-so-well-known wealth, but trying hard to be known, have also chosen the area around Middleburg). They were afraid that hill-topping (following hounds in a car or on foot) would become a national sport, like baseball...
Soon he was writing reviews for the Paris monthly, Cahiers du Cinéma, the Parisian equivalent of Schwab's Drugstore in Hollywood, a place where young hopefuls loiter. In the late '50s, every young French director who had directed nothing wrote for Cahiers. One by one, they emerged - Claude Chabrol with The Cousins, François Truffaut with The 400 Blows. Only Jean-Luc Godard seemed to stay behind, and one day he disappeared with the Cahiers' petty cash. Chabrol and Truffaut wondered if Godard was trying to finance a film. They came...
...SPLIT was authorized for common stock of Christiana Securities Co., the holding company controlled by the Du Ponts. Present price: around $15,800. Number of shares authorized will go from 150,000 to 12 million. Christiana's principal holdings: 27% of Du Pont, which in turn owns 22% of General Motors...