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Paris was unwrapping its Spring fashions, and last year's dictator of decollete, Dior's Marc Bohan, 37, was still in there plunging. Necklines were slipping in practically every big fashion house, but Bohan was a hard man to undercut, clearly wound up on the bottom of the heap. His biggest surprise was moving the bared bosom into broad daylight, and one billowy-sleeved, pleated-skirt afternoon number called the "Tom Jones" was so generously scooped that a single false step-and zut! alors! "We think women are glad to have such decolletage," said a Dior spokesman...
...Died. Marc Blitzstein, 58, satiric composer who jolted even the class-conscious '30s with his pro-labor operetta, The Cradle Will Rock, mellowed slightly after the war (he renounced Communism in 1949, the year his opera Regina appeared), but kept a spare set of sharks' teeth pearly white, dear, for the English adaptation of Brecht's Threepenny Opera, which ran six years off-Broadway, made a jukebox gigolo of Mack the Knife; in Fort-de-France, Martinique, where police charged three sailors with beating him to death...
...balance their own ideas, students first spend a chastening year or more mastering the similar ideas ("fundamentals") of such great thinkers as Plato, Marx, Tolstoy and Shakespeare. Tutors supervise the work, which is often livened by such guest lecturers as T. S. Eliot, André Malraux, Marc Chagall and Jacques Maritain. To check doctoral theses for accuracy, the committee calls in outside scholars who know the field. To combat jargon, "lay readers" with no expertise make sure that all theses are "interesting and comprehensible to any cultivated person...
...Caracalla, the manufacturers are sidling up to it-apparently inspired in part by the glimpses of Roman high laving indulged in by Cleopatra Taylor and Antony Burton in Shakespeare's latest spectacular. The Crane Co. has taken the plunge with a line of sunken tubs, dubbed the Marc Antony (6 ft. long and "rich in majestic beauty"), the Caesar ("once exclusive with emperors"), and the Centurion ("a masterful tribute to the mighty Roman legions...
...Marc J. Roberts '64, a past chairman of NSA's National Executive Committee, noted that the worth of the Yale and Dartmouth memberships in NSA could not be measured only by the visible accomplishments of the students from those schools...