Word: exception
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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When it comes to crime, Frenchmen take a back seat to no one-except in kidnaping, which French criminals apparently rate a U.S. specialty. The French do not even have a name for it, use the U.S. word, pronounced keednaping. But last week le crime américain was on every Parisian tongue. Little Eric Peugeot, an heir to one of France's greatest industrial (autos, appliances, heavy machinery) fortunes, was stolen in broad daylight and held for $100,000 ransom...
...common-law wife and an illegitimate son, who piously reported the poignant fact that in the 40 years before his death in 1806, at the age of 79, George Stubbs never had a drink of anything but water. Aside from that, little is known about him-except that at his peak he could command a higher price for the portrait of a horse than Sir Joshua Reynolds charged for an earl. There was good reason for his success: his landscapes could be as elegantly dead as any man's, but when he painted animals, every muscle flared with life...
...sheer demonic genius of their music. All Rogosin's candid-camera work is done with impressive skill and sensitivity. Where the director has trouble is in the acted action. Almost all his players are amateurs, and he has obviously tried to make them relax and act natural; but except in one exciting bull session among Negro intellectuals, most of them seem stilted; Rogosin thinks that they felt awkward speaking English. Zachariah Mgabi, a Zulu office worker whom Rogosin spotted one day in a railroad station, is an exception. At times he plays with a wild, shy, serious charm that...
Some foreign-car dealers are beginning to be badly hurt. Says one Westchester County (N.Y.) Vauxhall dealer: "My sales have dropped 25%. since the compacts came out." Admits a Renault dealer in Los Angeles, where all foreign-car sales except Volkswagen are down 40% to 50% : "We think we've seen the best part of our business." In the Miami area, foreign-car registrations are down from 21% to 15%. In Chicago, one Opel dealer reports his business is off 75%. U.S. auto dealers are no longer eager for foreign-car franchises. Only twelve have signed since last July...
...level, e.g., he got a niggardly 25?-a-week allowance as a boy, didn't go to "any exclusive preparatory school," but to Manhattan's progressive Lincoln. It also contains some odd facts about the Governor; e.g., one eye is bluer than the other; he is ambidextrous. Except for the color of their eyes, the geographical locations and the political proper nouns, the heroes of the other three biographies are interchangeable. All had remarkable, up-from-the-shoetops careers; all are so faultless and sinless that they must certainly be potential candidates for beatification as well...