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Surprise Invitation. By week's end the nervous and harried bridegroom had found a new best man. He is Dr. Roger W. Gilliatt, 37, a London nerve specialist and the son of a former physician to Queen Elizabeth. Dr. Gilliatt accepted the invitation with pleasure, but admitted to newsmen that he was also surprised to be asked to be best man, since he did not know Tony Armstrong-Jones that well. Obviously, the best man had not been found among Tony's best friends...
Checkmated. In Riverside. Calif., searching for the health department, where he planned to get a blood test, Prospective Bridegroom Emory Mink, 23, opened the wrong door, walked into the sheriff's office, was recognized and arrested on a traffic charge, but was allowed to get married and have a 15-minute honeymoon before starting his six-month jail sentence...
Most of their struggles are internal: soundless voices scream for help while faces keep smiling gamely. But Author Gordimer can describe the outer world as evocatively as the inner chaos of man. A slight story, The Bridegroom, comes alive in its loving account of a night on the Kalahari Desert, a vast stretch of grey sand, thorn bushes and cratered earth, under a "spiky spread of cold stars." In The Gentle Art, she neatly combines her love of the African land with her often shocked observation of its inhabitants. It deals with another night under the cold stars, this time...
...weeks France's National Assembly has debated the cases of nervous Draftee Jacques Charrier, 23. cinemactor bridegroom of Cinemactress Brigitte Bardot, and Civilian Yves Saint-Laurent, 23, twice-deferred head of Paris' high-fashion House of Dior. Last week France's Defense Minister Pierre Guillaumat himself spoke up: hospitalized Charrier is really "an urgent case for observation and treatment"; willowy Designer Saint-Laurent will be drafted-come hell or high fashion -next September...
...almost. In the first days of their marriage she gets the notion in her orange-rinsed head that sex clouds her judgment. "The trouble with us is the only thing we have in common is this physical attraction," she explains. In order to assure herself that her bridegroom is not slouching around her boudoir "for the wrong reason," Debbie decrees that there will be no beddingdown together for one month. The spurned husband takes three cold showers a day, and the newlyweds fill the frustrated hours with a colorful junket about Spain, where much of the picture was shot...