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Windfall? In Topeka, Kans., after spading a hole in his backyard for use as a tornado hideaway, Grist Haydon was visited by a deputy tax assessor, who placed a value of $150 on the diggings...
...particularly took Ewing's eye was a spacious underground root cellar (30 ft. by 5° ft) cut in solid bedrock. During the Depression, according to the local story, the Lamonts had stocked it with food to carry them through an expected revolution. Ewing found it an ideal hideaway for his sensitive seismographs...
Surrealistic Sailor. Cousteau and his wife Simone, a pert, green-eyed blonde with a lineage of French admirals, have a sprawling mansion in Monaco, a Paris apartment, a hideaway on the Riviera. "I have no home. My clothes are spread all over the world." says Cousteau cheerfully. Nearest thing to home is the bare cabin of the Calypso, where they may spend months at a time. Simone has become an expert Aqua-Lunger, tags along when Cousteau goes diving with their two sons, Jean-Michel, 21, and Philippe, 19. Cousteau declares that neither of them has ever gone swimming without...
...night, after dinner, he often goes to work alone in a hideaway upstairs office, where he can hear the sounds of the best dance band in Africa, arising from the first-floor exclusive Equator Club, which is open to white hunters, rich settler types, Ernest Hemingway, Robert Ruark, and Hollywood visitors-but not to Africans. Except on trips, Mboya has little time these days for the nightclubs and dancing he loves (he once shook the maracas in a dance band), or for the many girl friends, not all of them African, whom Tom has always attracted. His current flame...
Early in January Spears sent his wife a note and arranged a quiet meeting. They got together at Dallas' Lakewood Hotel, stayed there four days. Then Spears headed back to his desert hideaway. When his host, Turska, heard on a TV program that Spears was on the manifest of the crashed plane but was now believed to be alive, he called his attorney. Attorney's advice: get Spears out of the house and call...