Word: goldings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Steiner interviewed 15 of the 40 survivors of Treblinka now living in Israel, used fictional techniques to reconstruct the life and sudden death of the in- mates. The book's high point is the revolt, on Aug. 2, 1943, of the Jewish Sonderkommando, the laborers detailed to wrench gold teeth from corpses and bury the dead. With smuggled arms, the Jews killed 20 of their captors. Some 300 prisoners escaped from the camp, but all but 40 of them were eventually hunted down and executed...
Julie Christie, who stepped from her Cadillac with a bored-looking, beatle-mopped chap named Don Bessant, was dressed, prophetically, like an Oscarette in a gold lame pajama suit. Kim Novak slinked by in something that looked like a sequined American flag, while Julie Andrews wore a red-orange wool broadcloth with a deep-V "wrapped front" and a 30-karat topaz pendant...
...Luci and Fiancé Pat Nugent at a Good Friday service in San Antonio's Roman Catholic San Fernando Cathedral, later flew to the L.B.J. Ranch for a long Easter weekend. There they were joined by Daughter Lynda, looking as radiant as her father and sporting a jeweled gold ring on the third finger of her left hand. A gift from her current beau, Actor George Hamilton, who had also joined the family for the weekend, the ring, White House aides averred, stood for "friendship," not connubial intent...
...businessman, patriot, politician, international satyr and unintentional satire. Dax is to women what Dash is to washing machines: he makes them feel ten feet tall. His sometime pals, a French playboy and a White Russian con man, are not far behind in their technique: one of them receives a gold cigarette case from a female admirer inscribed delicately: 'To the world's greatest swordsman from his most grateful scabbard...
While The Adventurers is Robbins' biggest egg, it is nevertheless a solid-gold one. Advance printing reached 175,000 copies, and even before it was written Producer Joe Levine, who bankrolled The Carpetbaggers, took a million-dollar option on it, plans to put it before the cameras before it cools off. With such success enveloping him, Robbins feels that he can afford to snipe genially at some fellow writers who have enjoyed loftier reputations. Norman Mailer, he says, lost his knack "because he ran into his belly." And as for Truman Capote: "He'd be all right...