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DIED. Olga Deterding, 52, Swiss heiress (Royal Dutch/Shell Oil Co.), who frequently forsook affluent society to work for Dr. Albert Schweitzer in West Africa; after choking on a piece of meat at a New Year's Eve party; in London. Deterding first joined Schweitzer's hospital in 1956, while on an African safari. Assigned such chores as floor scrubbing and potato peeling, she stayed for a year, returning at irregular intervals until Schweitzer's death in 1965. "There are times when I like to suffer," said the peripatetic millionaire. "Having so much money makes it necessary...
Even if the press failed to penetrate the security surrounding the most controversial affaire de coeur in Monaco since Grace Kelly forsook Hollywood to marry Prince Rainier 26 years ago, there were other subjects to pursue. The guest list, first intended to include family friends only, read like a compendium of the Almanack de Gotha and Variety. Among those invited: two ex-Kings (Umberto II of Italy and Michael of Rumania), the Aga Khan, Grand Duke Vladimir of Russia and Frank Sinatra, David Niven and Cary Grant. (Britain's Prince Charles, otherwise engaged, sent regrets...
...Lowe and Edmunds are a little like an informal consortium, switching roles and swapping talents. Lowe produced the most recent Elvis Costello album, and has worked with the galvanic Graham Parker and the Rumour (a group made up of some Brinsley Schwarz refugees). Edmunds temporarily forsook his own production chores to back up Lowe on his tour of the colonies. "I would never go onstage with another lineup," Edmunds says. "I've got the best, and we're just starting...
...stunningly that the scorekeeping computers had to be reprogrammed to process the data of perfection. Shattering eight world records in their first nine finals, East Germany's women and America's men proved themselves the greatest swimmers the world has seen since mankind's forebears forsook the primeval ooze. In one 27-minute period, East Germany's incomparable Kornelia Ender, 17, won two gold medals. Meanwhile the U.S. men obliterated all opposition; their totals in the first five days' nine events: nine golds...
Instead of meekly abandoning their automobiles, however, many motorists simply forsook the freeway, jamming adjacent streets, increasing average commuting times by as much as 20% and raising the accident rate by 10%. Others ignored the diamond signs and used the restricted lanes whenever patrol cars were out of sight. Students and the unemployed gathered at access ramps; they offered themselves as passengers at a dollar a head for cars with fewer than three occupants. The buses, meanwhile, ran virtually empty. Of the 90,000 free-ride tickets distributed by the Southern California Rapid Transit District to lure new riders during...