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...taken the offensive in Laos. North Vietnamese taken prisoner seldom seem to know what their overall aim is in Laos, though they make good propaganda exhibits to rally villagers against the Communists. The best guess is that the Laos offensive is all part of General Giap's wider offensive in South Viet...
...satchel of money and drives off, while the salesman, ever the honest fellow, chases them into the fadeout, protesting valiantly that he has been overpaid. The possibilities are enormous. How about a scene that depicts Clyde brandishing a .46-caliber tommy gun. It's only a silly millimeter wider...
...Wider Palette. Then, early this year, Mauriat's single of Love Is Blue suddenly caught on. To date it has sold 1,850,000 copies. In turn, his albums took off too: sales of Blooming Hits, the LP that includes Love Is Blue, have soared to 750,000. Mauriat's record is also in the top 25 in England and has started to sell briskly in Japan (though not, as yet, in France). Recently he was invited to the U.S. for a TV performance on The Ed Sullivan Show and was plied with offers for cross-country personal...
...Paris apartment. The son of a Marseille postal inspector, he learned piano and violin from his father, entered the Marseille Conservatory at ten, and soon seemed headed for the life of a concert pianist. Instead, he veered off into a jazz career at 17, eventually became interested in the wider instrumental palette and richer sonorities of pop arranging. Established though he was in the profession, he remained a blank to the public, since French disk jockeys rarely credit orchestra leaders by name. But that was before Love Is Blue became red hot. Now color him gold...
...when the Fellows decided to start a magazine last fall to reach a wider audience than is generally found at their home on Eucalyptus Hill, the publication was expected merely to promote the Center's more passionate, loftily liberal concerns...