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...should: worked as a volunteer for Jack Kennedy, made TV commercials, served a stint on LIFE magazine. ''The black bourgeoisie,'' she writes, ''took great pride in its separateness from ordinary black culture.'' It was Lena redivivus, including marriage to a white man--in this case Director Sidney Lumet, the ex-husband of Gloria Vanderbilt. Buckley admits that black history took place for her like news from another planet. The Supreme Court decision desegregating schools had less significance than a scene in Las Vegas featuring an infatuated Marlene Dietrich pursuing Frank Sinatra. The year Rosa Parks refused to give...
...France, having failed in its mission. With Wednesday's rescue, Herve Marot, spokesman for the French support committee for Betancourt, warmly thanked Sarkozy and his government. "There is nothing but happiness here," he told a television station, adding that he was celebrating in Paris with Betancourt's relatives. (Her ex-husband Fabrice Delloye and their two children, Lorenzo, 20, and Melanie, 22, live in Paris. Said Lorenzo upon hearing the news: "We have won a struggle for freedom. Now I'll see my mother. It's one of the greatest moments of my life...
...nominee John Kerry, a pro-choice Catholic. Kerry is also divorced, but had his first marriage annulled, which allows Catholics to remarry in the Church. Last year, the Vatican reversed the annulment of Joseph P. Kennedy II's marriage to Sheila Rauch, who had written a book lambasting her ex-husband and the Catholic Church's practice of expunging marriages from their history. There have been no reports as to whether Kennedy, a former Congressman and son of Robert Kennedy, has stopped receiving the sacraments since Rauch's successful appeal was certified...
...work there weren't doing much business. "Mitzi was just crestfallen," says Argus Hamilton, the young comic from Oklahoma who was her errand boy and confidant at the time. "She had built that room for Buddy Hackett, Don Rickles, Shecky Greene, Bob Newhart - all those guys, her ex-husband's generation, who were ruling the roost in Vegas at the time. They refused to play the Main Room because they thought it would hurt their Las Vegas draw." Hamilton and another comic, Biff Maynard, suggested that Mitzi instead try to fill the room with a bill of her Comedy Store...
...resulting marriages can be heaven or hell. "The husbands fall into two extremes," says Keh Yu-ling, director of the Pearl S. Buck Foundation which serves the new immigrants, "simple shy guys who dote on their wives, or men with no respect for women." Fan had a taste of both. Her husband was sweet, she said, until he lost his job and began abusing her. When he broke her rib, she divorced him. Fan is grateful, however, for her freedom and the custody of her daughter. Of her ex-husband, she says, "We do our part as wives and mothers...