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Died. Charles W. Engelhard, 54, lavish-living multimillionaire who may have served as the model for the central character in Ian Fleming's novel Goldfinger: of an apparent heart attack: in Boca Grande, Fla. Engelhard ballooned an inheritance of $20 million into an estimated $250 million by his grasp...
Nations whose external problems might disrupt world peace are also probably disqualified-Israel and the Arab states, for example, or India and Pakistan. There is some feeling that a new chief U.N. executive should come from a country that is neutral, small and underdeveloped-which rules out Japan, among others...
Died. Gabrielle ("Coco") Chanel, 87, for much of the 20th century la plus grande dame of high fashion (see MODERN LIVING).
English Actor-Author Peter Bull, whose Teddy Bear Book has had considerable coterie success in Britain, was delighted to get an invitation to tea with Washington's grandest grande dame, Alice Roosevelt Longworth, 86, after whose father, President Teddy Roosevelt, the cuddly stuffed animals were named. Would she mind...
At the Top. She recounts with hostility how she worked for a whole year on a ballet by a young colleague set to Berlioz's Romeo et Juliette-only to have it turned down by the officials because it was "too openly erotic." Another ballet based on a picture...