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...married a Ceylonese track star known as "the fastest man in Asia." Unhappily, says Rosemary, he often sprinted after other women. At 28, she packed up her two daughters and took off for London, there to try the flamboyant high-and-low life her heroines always have a fling at. One day a middle-aged multimillionaire offered her a fancy flat in Paris and a huge allowance, but Rosemary had already fallen for a black G.I. named Leroy Rogers. "He was the first man," she recalls, "who made me feel like a real woman...
...woman with large eyes and elegant cheekbones. The daughter of a French aristocrat and a White Russian emigré, she lived in Paris as a child, moved to the U.S. in 1941, went to a fashionable New York girls' school (Spence) and Barnard. After college she had a fling in Paris, then returned home and settled down to life in the country with her painter husband and two sons, now 15 and 16. A sporadically lapsed Catholic, Mrs. Gray demonstrated against the war in Viet Nam, was busted, got involved with the Berrigan brothers and wrote Divine Disobedience...
...contrast, Mondale runs a much more relaxed operation. Having abandoned his own fling for the presidency in 1974 because, as he frankly admitted, he lacked the "overwhelming desire" to fight for the office, he is at ease as Carter's lieutenant. Both men are from small-town backgrounds; both are populists with an instinctive aversion to power elites...
...widower who developed a quiet obsession with pre-Columbian art. An innately cool eye for authenticity got him started. Muhlbach's sudden desire to possess statuary caused him embarrassment. In Double Honeymoon, Muhlbach again decides to take a risk within limits. This time it is a brief fling with a beautiful young girl every bit as exotic and cracked as a piece of pre-Columbian pottery...
...tour of South America in February, Raquel showed up at Rio's carnival on the elbow of Paulo Pil-la, 32, a former public relations man. Recently she ventured south again to spend eight days with Paulo in Buzios, a few more in Petrdpolis, followed by a final fling on the Copacabana. Raquel, said observers, appeared to be apaixonada. In rough Portuguese, that means bonkers about Pilla. The twosome evaded publicity until their last day together, when photographers spotted them at Rio's airport, bidding farewell before Raquel's trip home...