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Thonet Industries Inc. of Manhattan, heir to the century-old trademark, is now a bustling commercial furniture maker whose no-nonsense designs bear little kinship to bentwood. Somewhat surprised by all the excitement over vintage Thonet today, the firm nonetheless still "makes available" a modern version of the classic rocker, continues to manufacture the Vienna Chair (the familiar restaurant "upright") as well as the bentwood armchair that brought fame to the Thonet name and once moved Architect Le Corbusier to observe: "We believe that this chair, whose millions of representatives are used on the Continent and the two Americas, possesses...
...Outrageous!" trumpeted Erhard. At his insistence, West Germany's Cabinet discussed the possibility of punishing the automakers by cutting the tariffs on imported cars. But Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, never averse to taking would-be Heir Apparent Erhard down a peg, remained silent, and at week's end, despite continuing blasts from Erhard and the threat of three parliamentary investigations, the automakers still stood fast...
...father's grace. A student at London's Royal Ballet School, she got only reluctant permission from Charlie to go there-since he knows all too well the dangers that threaten pretty young girls in show business. Michael, 16, whom Chaplin regards as his artistic heir, goes to Geneva's International School; he speaks very little, and has the brooding look of Eugene O'Neill. Little Eugene Chaplin, 8, is known as Tadpole and is always talking, always in trouble. Charlie is a strict disciplinarian, and all seven children have felt the palm of his hand...
...around Rummel's residence, issued a flurry of mimeographed essays arguing that segre gation is authorized in the Bible. One scriptural text she cited was Genesis 21, which describes how Sara asks Abraham to cast out from his house the Egyptian concubine Hagar, whose son "shall not be heir with my son Isaac." On the assumption that no Egyptian can be white. Mrs. Gaillot argues that this passage "surely must mean no playing together in school." Biblical scholars dismiss her interpretation of this and other texts as ridiculously narrow-minded...
Died. William Thomas Waggoner Jr., 57, speed-happy heir to a $300 million Southwestern cattle-and-oil empire, who spent more than $1,000,000 building his unlimited (2,000-plus h.p.) hydroplanes Maverick and Shanty, which, despite endless mishaps, blazed their way to top U.S. speedboat records; in Phoenix, Ariz...