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Where once pastel mansions had gilded green canyons, a snaggle-toothed rubble of chimneys now disfigured the Mecca of conspicuous consumption. Raging through the Los Angeles suburbs of Bel Air and Brentwood, a gale-whipped brush fire-the worst in Southern California's history -had sent up in Argenta-mink smoke 447 homes (bottom price: $50,000), left behind more than $24 million in insurance claims, and the flossiest refugees since the Russian Revolution. Among the homeless were Actor Cliff Robertson, Joan Fontaine, Comedian Arnold Stang, Bandleader Orrin Tucker. All that was left of Burt Lancaster...
Hacking along Los Angeles' Bel Air Country Club course with a foursome that included Actor Randolph Scott, Lawyer Richard Nixon, 48, watched bug-eyed as his five-iron shot on the 155-yard third hole plopped home for a hole in one. "This," exulted the former Vice President, "is the greatest thrill of my life-even better than being elected...
...Algerian seaport of Bōne, F.L.N. terrorists tossed a grenade into a hotel, killing a guest, and in revenge a European mob surged through the streets and lynched the first two Moslems it encountered. In Oran. Sidi-bel-Abbés and Constantine, European counterterrorists exploded plastic bombs. At the U.N., the Afro-Asian nations lined up 46 of the 50 nations needed to call a special session of the U.N. General Assembly to discuss Tunisia's charge of French aggression at Bizerte. Boatloads of thousands of penniless French refugees, fleeing the possibility of renewed war in Tunisia...
...will last, I don't know." About ten months, as it turned out, for by last week, Tuesday (who was born Susan on a Thursday less than 18 years ago) had flown her mother's Hollywood Hills coop, settled into her own nine-room nest in Bel Air, complete with built-in hifi, patio and doll house...
...Italian film called La Viaccia, and the fellow on L'Express won the ensuing contest with "A great actress? Perhaps net yet. But beneath the glycerine tears, what a lovely face, what carnal splendor, what a future!" Opening this month in a new Franco-Italian film called Le Bel Antonio, she is currently working as a gypsy opposite Jean-Paul (Breathless) Belmondo in a picture called Cartouche, now being shot in Languedoc. Along the way, she has even developed a professional philosophy: "If only one spectator were to see me. I would die of shame; but I have...