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...Actress Britt Ekland sometimes travels in fast company. On location in Rhodesia for a film titled Slavers, Rock Singer Rod Stewart's lady recently showed up on the set with a pair of borrowed cheetahs. "They're incredibly tame," she says. "If they see prey, they go down on all fours in a stalking motion. You just say, 'Heel, cheetahs,' and they go back to normal." Swedish-born Britt is equally sanguine about the political troubles of racially torn Rhodesia. "It's one of the happiest countries in Africa," she coos. "We haven...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 6, 1976 | 12/6/1976 | See Source »

...sales lead in Dallas to 2 to 1. Irritated, Coke officials conducted their own consumer-preference test -not of the colas but of the letters. Their conclusion: Pepsi's test was invalid because people like the letter M better than they like Q. Chicago Marketing Consultant Steuart H. Britt theorizes that Q is disliked because of the number of unpleasant words that begin with Q (quack, quitter, quake, qualm, queer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ADVERTISING: Coke-Pepsi Slugf est | 7/26/1976 | See Source »

Virginia Polytechnic Institute Freshman Gardner Britt, 18, must have been playing football without his helmet. An article in the January Ladies' Home Journal implied that he was more or less engaged to President Ford's daughter Susan, 17-not that she was so special. "I don't think she will do anything spectacular," he opined, suggesting that Susan herself was antifeminist. "She's not like some of those Miss Teenage Americas who always have some fancy career in mind-like nursing." Added Chauvinist Britt: "A job is all right if women can do an equal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jan. 27, 1975 | 1/27/1975 | See Source »

...evil henchman is a dwarf, and Scaramanga himself (Christopher Lee), an unusually unimpressive villain, would be a dead cinch to spot on a beach since he has three nipples. Nothing much happens to any of these characters that has not happened before, and better. Maud Adams and Britt Ekland do, however, make a couple of mildly decorative, active heroines in a series notably short on them (Diana Rigg, in On Her Majesty's Secret Service, being the sole other exception...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Water Pistols | 1/13/1975 | See Source »

...world burgeons with plants and needlework (she made patchwork quilts of heirloom quality for special friends this Christmas) and her new hobby, photography, for which White House Photographer David Kennerly gives professional advice. She is cautioned against making demands on the domestic staff, so when her current steady, Gardner Britt, 18, a freshman at University of Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, had to catch a 6 a.m. plane, it was Susan who cooked his breakfast. Despite certain reservations, Susan and her friends find the White House a teen heaven. They bowl in the downstairs alley, dance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE WHITE HOUSE: Betty and Jerry Are at Home | 12/30/1974 | See Source »

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