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Telegraphed Admiration. Traditionalists deplore the trend and complain that it has vulgarized a stylish, patrician ritual. In the old days, no well-bred European kissed a woman's hand before noon, or outdoors (except at garden parties or the race track), or if she wore gloves-and not at all, in most countries, if she was unmarried. Nowadays, even in strait-laced Spain, girls who are barely old enough to hold up a strapless bra have their hands out. When it is enclosed in a glove, uninhibited males blithely peel it off or smooch the wrist instead...
...first of the Harvard-bred Kennedy appointees to return to his academic home, John Kenneth Galbraith, Paul M. Warburg Professor of Economics, speaks easily about his two-year tenure as the head of the U.S. embassy in India. Leaving no doubt that he was in charge both in deed and in fact, Galbraith maintained that any ambassador "can have as large a role as he wants" in policy decisions. In his own case, he added, he had an even greates voice in such decisions since he "went out there as President Kennedy's man in India...
Only the Olympian Don Fabrizio is memorable. Played with strength and restraint by Burt Lancaster, the Prince becomes more and more detached as the aristocrats pander to the now-powerful bourgeoisie and the bourgeoisie pander to the well-bred aristocrats. At the end, as he waits for death, the bewhiskered leopard evokes pathos for the passing of real nobility. But even then, it is only the old story of aristocratic decline, for Visconti has ignored a most central aspect of the novel by observing the Prince only from the outside...
...natural habitat on European cliffs, the rock dove (Columba livid), with its grey coat, white rump and iridescent head and neck, is an attractive bird. Bred and trained by man, it has become a valiant message carrier, famed for its speed and homing instinct. It has also become a multicolored pest, appealing mainly to snapshooting tourists and aging lonelyhearts who get solace of a sort from feeding the flocks...
Died. Nam Phuong, 49, last Empress of Viet Nam, convent-bred Cochin Chinese bride (in 1934) of Puppet Emperor Bao Dai, who used her imperial influence to further Roman Catholicism, lived apart from her playboy husband after his 1955 exile; of a heart attack; in Chabrignac, France...