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...pack of eight Alsatian hounds that guard the 1,000-acre Sutton Place estate near London of Last Billionaire Jean Paul Getty, 69. normally content themselves with 3 Ibs. of horsemeat apiece each day. spiced with an occasional hunk of prowler. Notices about the property warn: "Danger. Guard Dog-Keep Away. This dog is trained to treat all strangers as enemies. Do not touch." All of which is unsettling enough without one of Getty's pets hopping the fence into someone else's land. As Getty and a few friends were out for a stroll...
...marriage Memmi describes is "mixed." The hero-narrator is a Tunisian Jew studying medicine in Paris. Marie is a young Alsatian student from a Catholic family. At first the very difference in their backgrounds acts as a spur to their love. When Marie learns that he wants to return to Tunisia to practice among his people, she readily agrees to go with him. But in Tunisia they are met by her husband's family, a noisy, colorful clan she was wholly unprepared for. Their food seems outlandish, their curiosity rude. After the long drawn-out, seemingly crude Passover celebration...
Died. The Rev. Francis Xavier Gsell, 87, Alsatian-born Roman Catholic missionary, known as "the bishop with 150 wives" for his campaign against native child-marriage customs in Australia's Northern Territory (he would "buy" young girls, sometimes for as little as $5, and send them off to mission homes); in Sydney...
...collects race horses, names them after movie paraphernalia (CinemaScope, Projector I, Vista Vision II). At his Singapore mansion, he keeps rare orchids and tropical fish, plus four man-killing Alsatian hounds to discourage thieves. Lacking some of his brother's more exotic tastes, Run Run likes to mix business with pleasure, recently put up a twelve-story building in downtown Kowloon, with a nightclub on the first floor, offices on the third, living quarters for starlets on the eighth, and a luxury apartment for himself on the ninth...
Into the town of Comodoro Rivadavia on the windswept Patagonian coast flew President Arturo Frondizi last week to celebrate the 52nd anniversary of the day an Alsatian engineer, drilling for water, brought in the country's first paying oil well. What Frondizi saw, touring by open car, was a brash and bustling boom town (pop. 23,000) where the sprawling trailer camps are guyed by wire against the 75m.p.h. gales, where tricky tides buffet the three to four ships putting in daily at the busy port, where U.S., British, Dutch and Italian oilmen elbow up in nightclubs to watch...