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...August 1944, during the Warsaw uprising against the Nazis, the entire church and its adjacent convent were leveled by bombs and artillery shells, burying 35 nuns, four priests, and 4,000 civilian rebels under the wreckage. Today, newly roofed with copper that sparkles in the sun's autumn rays, the church is at last receiving its final coat of paint...
...blue and orange Rolls-Royce earned the London Daily Express' admiration as "a cross between a psychedelic nightmare and an autumn garden on wheels." But it was a pretty square set of wheels compared to John Lennon's latest vehicle-an 1874 carriage, fundamentally yellow with wild flowers rampant, which was triumphantly drawn up to Lennon's mansion in Weybridge, Surrey, by two white horses in front with two more trotting at the rear. The new Beatlemobile, which cost Lennon about $10,000 to buy and have refurbished, "is really a toy for four-year-old Julian...
...original," because the machine can work only with a painting painted for it on a specially treated canvas plaque. Lichine & Co. have so far recruited Ernst, Rene Magritte and Edouard Pignon for their stable of pilot kamagraphers, plan to put their output on sale in the U.S. in the autumn, priced...
...proved that they could cooperate to a limited extent, at least when it came to defusing a situation fraught with real danger to both. The lesson could be applied equally well toward Viet Nam, where Washington and Moscow seemed on the verge of a joint move toward peace last autumn, then veered off into a new round of hostility. If Russia and the U.S. could work together on the Arab-Israeli war, Kentucky's Republican Senator Thruston Morton declared, "it might be the same power duopoly that could bring Viet Nam to the conference table." Agreed Senate Majority Leader...
...late spring, it is back to Paris briefly, then down to a rented villa on the Riviera or, of recent years, to a bungalow at Marbella on the Spanish Costa del Sol. Autumn used to be reserved for hunting weekends, but since an eye operation in 1965, the duke no longer shoots. The duke and duchess give and go to small dinner parties with such friends as the Eugene de Rothschilds, sometimes attend the theater or ballet on gala occasions. Each December they slip into London, where they stay at Claridge's, for Christmas shopping, returning to Paris...