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...desk by 9 a.m., works a ten-hour day five days a week, and spends her weekends with her husband and 19-year-old daughter Sophie at their country house, 40 miles south of Paris. Once a 13th century priory, the house is furnished in Louis XVI style. "It's rather rustic," says Mme. Rochas. Things are less rustic back home in Paris, where the dominant colors are blue and red. "In blue I find repose," explains Mme. Rochas, "whereas the violence of red refreshes my enthusiasm...
...less promising, or more likely to induce yawns, except, perhaps, within sneering distance of the Café Flore. But Miss Sarraute is a genuine minor genius, whose motto might be "They that live by the word shall perish by the word." By the time she is through, the Louis XVI chairs are all beslobbered with blood...
...Saturday, Jan. 18 T,T,S 9 XI Thursday, Jan. 23 T,T,S 10 XII Friday, Jan. 24 T,T,S 11 XIII Friday, Jan. 17 T,T,S 12 XIV Tuesday, Jan. 21 T,T,S 1 XV Saturday, Jan. 18 T,T,S 2 XVI Saturday, Jan. 18 T,T,S 3 XVII Saturday, Jan. 25 T,T,S 4 XVIII Saturday...
...period furniture, irreplaceable tapestries. Drawing only from Rothschild collections, Sotheby's or Parke-Bernet could hold an auction every week for a year- and each sale would make news. Curators of the Louvre and the Met can only drool at the accumulations of Egyptian sculpture, Louis XV and XVI furniture, Sevres porcelain, 16th century enamelware, and wall upon wall of Goyas, Rubenses, Watteaus and Fragonards. When Philippe and Pauline have tea, their dog Bicouille is sometimes served a snack off an aluminum dish placed upon a napkin spread over their expensive rugs. Says Pauline: "We are fortunate, of course...
Only at rare intervals, though, did Explorer XVI collide with anything bigger than a microscopic bit of cosmic dust. There were 44 meteoroids that succeeded in penetrating a sheet of beryllium-copper one-thousandth of an inch thick, which is slightly thicker than household aluminum foil. The most powerful meteoroid encountered knocked a tiny hole in stainless steel three-thousandths of an inch thick. Metal as thick as the wall of a beer can went unpunctured. NASA's tentative conclusion is that the plentiful meteoroids are too small to do harm, and the dangerous ones...