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...such was the Saudi Arabian way of solving a dilemma: women are strictly second-class citizens in one of the world's most conservative monarchies, yet great courtesy was due the first British monarch to visit their petro-peninsula. The Queen reciprocated by tailoring her trip to local custom. Royal Dressmaker Sir Norman Hartnell whipped up frocks with longer sleeves and hemlines. Hatmaker Frederick Fox tacked scarves to her hats to suggest the face veils worn by Muslim women. Prince Philip nevertheless ignored the stares of chauvinist sheiks and marched his customary three paces back...
...plot for three movies, not quite enough characterizations for one. Fox, as a demolition expert toting around a suitcase full of devilishly clever explosive devices, does do his best to compensate for a cardboard part with another of his amusingly off-center performances. Shaw is hearty, as was his custom in recent times, but Ford, bereft of the kind of writing that made comic capital of his essential sullenness in Star Wars, makes one of the gloomiest central figures in the history of adventure films. Richard Kiel, the giant steel-fanged heavy of The Spy Who Loved Me, beats...
...Rugroden, 28, who invented the item when he was a physics student at the University of California at Berkeley, "is that it can go anywhere. Even up hills, apparently, provided the surface is hard and smooth Motoboarding is no cheap thrill, however. A standard Motoboard retails tor the special custom model...
...Rhodesia, Angola and Ethiopia. The swing was no breezy Baedeker tour. As a result of Iowa Senator Dick Clark's upset defeat in last month's elections, McGovern is in line to chair the Foreign Relations Subcommittee on African Affairs, assuming incoming Foreign Relations Chairman Frank Church continues the custom of having such geographical subcommittees. McGovern's trip was partly intended to show that he not only wanted the job, but also was thoroughly prepped...
...Youngbloods Gentleman's Club recently revived the defunct debut custom in this medium-sized city by promising to send the proceeds to some worthy cause. That first year, the new Natural History Museum received five thousand dollars and the Youngbloods retained eleven thousand to "cover costs." Tonight in the Bloodhound Room, the evening before P (for Presentation) Night, the Club is hosting cocktails and canapes for this year's class of nineteen debutantes and their parents. The girls, who have little in common beside their age, delicately probe each other's reasons for coming...