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...herself, Natalie can hardly wait. She fervently hopes that Splendor will at last wipe out the image of the child star that still lingers on among TV viewers of her old movies, which are still running on the late, late shows. Says she: "Those things haunt me. People are always bugging me by saying 'My, how you have grown!' You'd think they expected me to stay seven years old." But her anxiety is needless. As any studio executive or reader of the gossip columns could have told them, Nat is a big girl in Hollywood...
...rajah's cremation began-a reasonably brief period, since in Bali, bodies of the dead have been known to lie in state for as long as 20 years before burning. No expense was spared, lest Ide Anak Agung Ngurah Agung's dissatisfied-spirit return to haunt his family. The final cremation budget: $110,000. This included the price of a trip to far off Singapore by the rajah's eldest son; tinsel, gilded paper and assorted, brightly colored gewgaws required for the crematory tower were not available in import-restricted Indonesia. The family's 200-year...
...bottom and tested the oxygen content of the deep. The results, carefully evaluated in the laboratory on shore, were disturbing. At 10,000 years of age, Douglas Lake was past its prime, and slowly dying. In a few more thousand years-a mere split-second in geological time-this haunt of fishermen will be gone, with nothing but a bog to mark its grave...
...feel like Dr. Frankenstein. I taught her everything she knows, and she's damn smart." Thus did chain-smoking Houston Post Gossip Columnist Bill Roberts, 43, express his frustration about a journalistic "creation" that has come home to haunt him: blonde Maxine Mesinger, 35, tattler for the Houston Press. Once Roberts' girl Friday on the Press, Maxine last week was still scooping her way through town as his chief rival, barely noting a snippy feud that has Houstonians gabbing as much about the two columnists as about the people they chronicle...
Over the summer, a little disorganized organizing went on, applications were solicited, and David Riesman submitted a proposal that was to haunt discussions of the Freshman year: fifty members of the seminar group he was organizing would live in a single dorm (what he would do with his Cliffies never became clear) and eat their meals together, taking a core of courses together. The Advanced Standing Committee was decidedly not interested...