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...genuine Cartier shop was opened last week to battle the imposter. The fake is the creation of Fernando Pelletier, a Mexican who has 14 "Cartier" boutiques, half of them in the capital, and others in places like Acapulco, Guadalajara and Puebla. They sell such bogus baubles as tank knock-offs assembled with cheap Swiss watch movements. Pelletier once offered to sell his stores to the Paris firm for $4.5 million, but irate Cartier officials decided to pay lawyers instead. The company has won 25 suits against Pelletier, but the copy Cartier remains in business, and still costs the Paris original...
DIED. Andrei Amalrik, 42, exiled Russian dissident and human rights advocate; of injuries received in a collision as he was driving to attend meetings in conjunction with the Helsinki conference in Madrid; near Guadalajara, Spain. A historian and author of the 1970 book Will the Soviet Union Survive Until 1984?, in which he predicted the downfall of the Kremlin regime, Amalrik was twice exiled to Siberia before being pressured in 1976 to emigrate to the West, where he has lived in The Netherlands, the U.S. and France. When he was sentenced in 1970 to three years in prison, he wrote...
DIED. Leon Janney, 63, child actor in such movies as Courage (1930), Abie's Irish Rose (1928) and several Our Gang comedies who went on to a busy career in radio, theater, film and television; of cancer; in Guadalajara, Mexico. Janney made his debut as a two-year-old vaudevillian in his home town of Ogden, Utah, portrayed the all-American boy Richard Parker in The Parker Family on both radio and television, and was also noted for roles like Mr. Peachum in the 1956 off-Broadway revival of The Threepenny Opera...
...most vivid childhood memory of Architect Luis Barragán is of a water system in a village set in the red hills near the Mexican city of Guadalajara. "Great gutted logs, in the form of troughs," he remembers, "ran on a support system of tree forks, five meters high, above the roofs. This aqueduct crossed over the town, reaching the patios, where there were great stone fountains to receive the water. The channeled logs, covered with moss, dripped water all over town. It gave the village the ambience of a fairy tale...
...Barragán spent much of his youth riding horses, attending fiestas and visiting marketplaces. He planned to be a rancher himself, but his mother insisted that he have a profession. He chose civil engineering but developed an interest in architecture while taking his degree at the University of Guadalajara. Before settling down to work, he spent two years in Europe, where he was charmed by "the architecture of the poor"?by Greek villages, which he had visited, by Moorish souks, which he had not, but had studied in books. Most of all, he fell in love in with...