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...victory at a benefit match after his horse stumbled and nearly landed on top of him. The next day he lost, but fair maiden rewarded him nonetheless. As Britons sighed over their still astonishingly golden couple, someone did happen to notice a diamond ring given to Diana by Louis Gerard, a Paris jeweler who sponsored the polo benefit on behalf of Birthright, a charity for unborn children. After a press report describing the (pounds)10,000 gift appeared on Diana's 24th birthday, a palace spokesman swiftly announced, "Given the fact that members of the royal family do not accept...
More serious -- and moving -- tributes were offered to two absent friends. One afternoon a single spotlight illuminated the Palais stage -- the aura left vacant by Francois Truffaut, who died at 52 last October -- and slowly two dozen figures gathered in the shadows. Jeanne Moreau, Jean-Pierre Leaud, Catherine Deneuve, Gerard Depardieu, Fanny Ardant and a host of old colleagues were there to wreathe the great director's memory in their affection and gratitude...
...subject more exhaustively than Dr. Ruth Westheimer. But even the tirelessly cheerful radio and television talk-show sexpert gets worn down by the grind of filmmaking. "It's much harder than being a psychosexual counselor," she says. Dr. Ruth went to Paris to make her film debut opposite Gerard Depardieu and Sigourney Weaver in a French farce, One Woman or Two. Westheimer plays a rich American who bankrolls Depardieu's research into the 2,000-yearold remains of the first Frenchwoman. When Depardieu shows up at the airport looking for Westheimer, he meets Weaver instead, and the pair fall madly...
...Massachusetts Legislature will later this month debate how much to increase state aid to college students. Currently on the table are two proposals, Governor Michael S. Dukakis's $5 million hike and the $25 million raise of Sen. Gerard D'Amico's (D-Worcester...
While National Security Adviser to Presidents Kennedy and Johnson, Bundy was an early, forceful advocate for U.S. military assistance to South Viet Nam. Now he is closer to the antiwar activists who fought him. Along with McNamara, former Ambassador to Moscow George F. Kennan and Gerard Smith, chief negotiator of the SALT I treaty, Bundy recently urged the U.S. and NATO to adopt a no-first-strike policy toward nuclear weapons, and has said that President Reagan's Star Wars proposal does not "respect reality." Head of the Ford Foundation from 1966 to 1979, Bundy, 66, is now a history...