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From the Aegean island of Tenos, Greece's Lourdes, a sacred, jewel-encrusted ikon of the Virgin Mary, which is believed to work miracles, was sped by naval destroyer and limousine to the King's sickroom. Briefly Paul rallied...
Many Portias admit with a touch of asperity that they are often overpraised by men for a performance that would be regarded as merely competent in another male. "Women are not expected to have any sense," shrugs Jewel Rogers Lafontant, a statuesque, beautiful Chicago criminal lawyer whose father and grandfather were attorneys before her. As a Negro and a woman at the bar, Mrs. Lafontant-who has fought cases all the way to the Supreme Court-has probably faced more courtroom scowls in 18 years of trial work than almost any other U.S. attorney-male or female. Says...
...rest of the plot, hélas, acts nowhere near so sensibly. Belmondo plays the bland best friend of Maurice (Serge Reggiani), a ferret-faced hood who bumps off a fence to get the loot from the big Avenue Mozart jewel robbery. Then, on Maurice's next job, somebody tips the gendarmes. Who? Is Belmondo le doulos, the stoolie? It looks that way until Belmondo uses the Mozart swag to triple-cross a gangland czar, gets Maurice sprung from jail, and splits a pile of G notes with his old copain. It takes a long flashback...
...Viet Cong," he says, "are doing that for us." In a guerrilla war, it is often impossible to tell who is winning. But in Viet Nam some things do seem certain: many more lives will be tragically lost, the war cannot possibly be won by 1965, and a rich jewel of a country carved out of ancient Indo-China sees no end in sight to a decade of Red-instigated fighting. About the best that can be expected is to maintain hope, apply muscle in the right places, make long-range commitments, and retain a dogged determination to keep fighting...
...roly-poly ruler of Renaissance Bavaria, diamonds were a duke's best friend. Albrecht V nearly emptied the privy purse in 1565 to buy the 27 jewel-studded pieces-primarily cups and goblets-that formed the original Schatzkammer (treasure chamber) of the Wittelsbach family, which ruled Bavaria from 1180 to 1918. But to Albrecht, competing for glory with monarchs from Madrid to Moscow, it was worth every pfennig. Over the centuries, the treasure grew in splendor and size; its 1,224 pieces rank it with the four largest royal treasure chambers that survived the decline of Europe...