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...Church, Va. kept her furnace going by burning all her firewood, then the extension leaves from her dining-room and kitchen tables then her cat's wooden house. Police guarding the Hudson River's George Washington Bridge turned back convertibles, fear ful that jagged chunks of ice, torn by wind from the girders and cables far overhead, might crash through the fabric roofs...
...Frenchmen to fury, his proffered olive branch very nearly toppled the government of Premier Felix Gaillard. Trouble was that along with the olive branch came news that Bourguiba would still not agree to France's scheme for "neutral control'' of the border between Tunisia and revolt-torn Algeria, still insisted that France publicly concede that "in principle" Tunisia has sovereignty over Bizerte. Stirred to their chauvinistic depths. France's right-wing Independents, a vital element in Premier Gaillard's rickety government coalition, promptly repudiated all the concessions which they had agreed to only two weeks...
...best known with ads showing nibbled slices and the message, "New York is eating it up." Among the agency's other memorable copy: a plug for Israel's El Al airline's new, faster Britannia plane service, with a picture of the Atlantic Ocean one-fifth torn away ("Starting Dec. 23, the Atlantic Ocean will be 20% smaller"); its challenging ads for Ancient Age bourbon ("If you can find a better bourbon, buy it"); a Max Factor lipstick ad showing the Colosseum and a pair of fiery eyes staring from a Roman Senator's bust...
...convinced that "art has much to do with madness." ¶ Serge Poliakoff, a gypsy who paints geometric designs and says his "ambition is to speak the truth ... A red circle is not the sun. It is a red circle." ¶ Bernard Buffet, who once used his mother's torn sheets as canvases, has had the most spectacular success, now owns a chateau and a Rolls, says "wealth aids my creative spirit; poverty does not necessarily help genius." A painter of contorted, distorted, sad human beings, Buffet is as disillusioned and almost as popular in France as his friend, Novelist...
...them as a separate series), met different receptions. One opened in a rundown part of Brooklyn without a stir. But the other, in Manhattan's Greenwich Village, brought violent protests from the district school board and the local P.T.A. One group grumbled that the old building should be torn down to make a playground for an adjoining new school. Other Villagers made plain their dislike of "a special school for a bunch of juvenile delinquents." Muttered a beat-pounding cop: "They ought to bring up a couple of drill instructors from Parris Island to teach them a few things...