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Still a bachelor at 42, Cornfeld keeps a Paris apartment, a London townhouse and a 13th century chateau just across the Swiss border in France. His principal abode is a Geneva lakeside villa, where the household includes two ocelots, his Russian-born mother and often a covey of miniskirted proteges. Lately, the restless Cornfeld has turned over much of the day-to-day operation of I.O.S. to some of his millionaire aides. Cornfeld remains the chief, but he obviously hopes to convince the remaining skeptics that I.O.S. is something more than his private fief...
...Prince Rainier and Princess Grace. Since then the couple has contributed 10,000 francs toward a down payment on a new home for Josephine and her "fraternité universelle" -twelve adopted children of all races and nationalities. The St. Louis-born singer and her brood, after losing their chateau in the south of France, have now moved into a lovely white villa on the coast at Roquebrune-Cap-Martin. "This is the proof that one should never despair," said Josephine, adding that she will now work even harder to meet the rest of the payments on the $100,000 house...
...NASA public relations man-the astronauts spent their free hours playing pingpong, watching color TV and reading the accounts of their voyage (which are sent through an air lock and sterilized by ultraviolet light). After their leisurely evening meals (sample menu: T-bone steak, a bottle of 1964 Chateau Lafite Bordeaux), the astronauts usually chatted with their families through the glass partition...
...ruined chateau, a family of French aristocrats are slowly starving to death. The austere, haughty marquise conceives a plan. With the help of God-and her daughter and granddaughter-she will turn the place into a bordello. As Baudelaire wrote and the picture illustrates, "Life is a hospital in which every patient is possessed with the desire to change his bed." In a sudden deluge of customers, the most libidinous patient is Cesar (Yves Montand), a glib, jittery professional thief. The ladies of the house conspire to render unto themselves what is Cesar's-a million stolen francs-with...
...prices for older vintages. A bottle of 1966 Bonnes Mares Comte de Vogue (described as "noble," "powerful" and "long-lived") today costs twice as much as it did a year ago. Prices for 1966 quality wines have gone up 30% or 40% since last spring. A case of 1967 Chateau Lafite Rothschild, a famous Bordeaux, last December was priced at $76 (f.o.b. France). A case of the same wine is now selling for more than...