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...cardinal entered the ancient former Carmelite convent on the Rue d'Assas in Paris and paused on the stone stairway. Here, on Sept. 3, 1792, a howling mob of the Revolution had hacked to pieces 114 bishops and priests, thrown their dismembered bodies into the Seine. The cardinal uttered a short prayer for the peace of their souls, then went on up the "stair of the martyrs" and entered the Salle des Actes, smiling and gesturing with slender hands. Before him, four cardinals, 20 archbishops, 90 bishops-most of the hierarchy of the Roman Catholic Church in France-rose...
Understandably irritated by a policy which freezes wages but not prices, French workers have launched an ominous series of strikes, in one of which some of the Finance Minister's own employees marched down the rue de Rivoli chanting "Hang Ramadier." Inexorably, the day is approaching when, if they want to keep their patient healthy and happy, Drs. Mollet and Ramadier will have to do more than ease his distress with a phony thermometer...
There are other top couturiers, each with his champions. There is young (30) Marquis Hubert Taffin de Givenchy, a gangling giant (6 ft. 7 in.) with a title more than four centuries old, whose gambit is daring colors and bizarre fabrics. In the Rue Cambon, Coco Chanel has staged a comeback with soft, clinging suits that suppress the bosom ("Madame Chanel doesn't like it-since 30 years, she doesn't like it"). At Lanvin-Castillo, the place where Parisiennes used to go if they wanted to be sure they would not be mistaken for Americans, Designer Antonio...
...inches of news space last week to what it considered the world's greatest story. In a full column on Page One, the Trib reported breathlessly that Reuters' Editor Walton ("Tony") Cole, "the editor of the world's greatest international newsgathering organization," and Trib Correspondent Larry Rue, "one of the world's most famous foreign correspondents," had flown in from London and Vienna, respectively, on a weighty mission. The mission: to tell 400 members of the Trib's editorial staff "why the paper is entitled to be called the world's greatest newspaper...
...dinner, "rollicking, adventurous" Larry Rue, as the Trib called him, received a $500 award from the Trib and provided the only deprecatory note. He was quoted as saying that "he had often heard the remark: 'You're all right, but it's too bad you work for the Chicago Tribune!'" Explained the Trib: "He always puts such people in their place by saying, 'The Tribune never asked me to work for it. I asked the Tribune. I am proud to work for the Tribune because I believe...