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...returning home. Officially, she is returning a state visit to Britain three years ago by Chile's President Eduardo Frei. Unofficially, there are high hopes that the Queen's travels will help promote the exports that Britain needs to correct its trade balance. As the London Daily Mirror put it: "The production has been carefully worked out, and the leading lady has played the part before...
...Hepburn is, at 59, unmistakably Hepburn; the quavering accent is still as prominent as her cheekbones. But she adds to what might have been simply a personality portrayal a sly, dry delivery that breaks her brittle dialogue in all the right places. As she mocks herself in a hand mirror, it is not hard to see the aristocratic beauty that was once reflected there. And, in truth, still...
Archie C. Epps, assistant dean of Harvard College, will participate in an open discussion on the ROTC issue, sponsored by the Harvard Young Republicans League. The dinner meeting is at 6 p.m. tonight in the Mirror Room, 2nd floor, Freshman Union. All students are invited. For reservations, call...
...dominated by luxury-loving Bourbon France, and its real mirror was its applied arts. Cabinetmakers produced carved and inlaid furniture, which they were entitled to sign, like artists. Porcelain factories turned out incense burners shaped like snails or elephants, tulip stands decorated with genre scenes. Yet, while artisans were elevated to the status of artists, painters often became as subservient as craftsmen. The vast majority of oils, watercolors and drawings made by Fragonard, Boucher, Watteau and Nattier to decorate boudoirs and gaming rooms were skillful but skin-deep pictures of pretty ladies, handsome gallants and idyllic landscapes...
Peek at the Mirror. As gratifying as its own sales were, Detroit still peeked nervously in the rearview mirror at its foreign competitors, which have been accounting for about 10% of all U.S. sales. In fact, if it were not for a disturbing surge of imports, which will reach a sales level of well over 900,000 this year, a new auto-industry record would be merely an outside possibility rather than a virtual certainty. In any case, many of this year's buyers, whether they prefer U.S. or foreign models, plainly went into the market for the same...