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Egypt's pleasure-sated ex-King Farouk, most feckless monarch of modern times, celebrated the third anniversary of his dethronement by calling in Paris newsmen and weeping like a Nile crocodile over the plight of his former subjects. Blubbered fat, foolish Farouk, while sipping unloaded mineral water (booze was never one of his vices): "The revolution has turned into a tyrannical dictatorship. The army officers, the so-called 'liberators,' have become small despots. Egypt is now a police state and the Egyptians are a captive people...
...hustle over and do some fast casting on the spot. Most international is the Caffè; Doney, where newsboys hawk the London Daily Telegraph, France-Soir and Variety, and waiters accept orders for milkshakes or ham-and-eggs without batting an eye. Patrons include Egypt's ex-King Farouk, Hollywood's ex-Star Bruce Cabot (now a fixture of Rome's colony of movie expatriates), visiting U.S. executives, Turkish businessmen, passing luminaries...
...almost the same spot one night last week, helmeted members of the Garde Républicaine held seats for people of importance-British Ambassador Sir Gladwyn Jebb, Soviet Ambassador Sergei Vinogradov, ex-King Farouk. When they and some 8,000 others were seated, the production of ballet hit a height of splendor to satisfy a Medici...
...auction block in Cairo: a confiscated, outsize frogman outfit, once the property of Egypt's bullfrogsize ex-King Farouk...
...Egypt's ex-King Farouk, interviewed by Milan's weekly Tempo, was still looking like the fat of the land, but disclosed that he no longer lives off it. Moaned he: "I lived in wonderful palaces with a thousand-and-one-night atmosphere. But I was never personally rich . . . The revolutionists have seized my private property ... I left Alexandria with the change I had in my pocket." How much change? "A faithful secretary at the last moment slipped ?600 sterling into my pocket." On such a pittance, asked his interviewer, how had Farouk managed to live so high...