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Tradition demands that the King of Morocco have at least one wife-he is entitled to four-before he accedes to the throne. Thus loyal Moroccans took it for granted at the time that sportive Bachelor Hassan had quietly been married in the five days between the death of his father, Mohammed V, and his own religious coronation in March 1961. Since it is also customary for royal wives to remain in the background, the marriage was never announced or acknowledged. "If the King has a child," purred a Moroccan diplomat last week, "that is his personal affair." In Rome...
...hope the next President will be a Republican bachelor who is also an only child...
...marry a nameless woman whom he shares with a nameless lover? Befuddled, the bachelor turns for advice to a woman of the world (Françoise Prėvost), intelligent and dependably unemotional. Yet when he shows her a picture of the girl the woman suddenly turns pale and hurries away. Why? Obviously, the woman is the other dove in the nest. Not so obviously, she is also in love with the hero. Any other questions? The film answers them in passably explicit detail and with a sick romantic energy that Honoré de Balzac, who wrote the tale...
Living high in Switzerland, Bachelor Cornfeld is hugely satisfied with his worldwide success. Meeting a former social-work classmate recently, Cornfeld was asked what kind of agency he had gone into. Said he: "A preventive agency...
Family Affair. Commanding this industrial empire is Chairman Ernst von Siemens, a shy bachelor who raises exotic flowers as a hobby and says, "Our essential goal is to do sound business rather than big business." Von Siemens has surrounded himself with a staff of multilingual executives, many of whom have studied abroad or served in Siemens foreign outposts. Since working control of the company is held by the Von Siemens family, the heir apparent is a 51-year-old cousin. Peter von Siemens, now a deputy member of the management board of Siemens' sister firm. Siemens-Schuckert, which makes...