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Radcliffe placed second in the nationals last year, with Angell co-skippering in the B division and winning three of her four races. This year she will sail A Division in 15 races, while Roehm takes on the B division competition. The event will be sailed in Lido 14s, a West Coast boat that neither skipper is familiar with...
...that ended last summer when the Nets bought off the warring parties and signed The Doctor to an eight-year contract that is worth about $2.5 million. Now, instead of spending off-court time in lawyers' offices, Erving relaxes in his as yet unfurnished $37,000 condominium in Lido Beach, L.I., or cruises with his fiancee Turquoise Brown in his white 1973 Avanti...
...decided to offer my wife the Casino de Paris." The French choreographer made a lovely choice; since his wife is Singer-Dancer Zizi Jeanmaire, his gift is now one of the delights of Paris. For the first time in decades, the legendary Casino boasts a show that puts the Lido and the Folies-Bergère to shame. Nowhere on the Continent these days is there a revue to match the Casino's lively, naughty, insouciant offering. It is lavish testimony that oldfashioned, star-spangled sex has not entirely given way to the new eroticism...
...Astronaut James McDivitt, it all started with a big night at Paris' plush Lido, where he got the VIP treatment from the club's showgirls. The next morning McDivitt hustled out to the Air Show, where he and fellow Apollo 9 Crewmen David Scott and Russell Schweiclcart showed Cosmonauts Vladimir Shakalov and Alexei Yeliseyev around the American exhibit. The proceedings started somewhat stiffly; then a bottle of bonded bourbon was broken out and things began to loosen up. By the time the revelers reached the Russian exhibit with its plentiful stock of vodka, they were saluting everything from...
Some people find all this hard to take. But most of Fielding's readers, who sense this atmosphere in the Guide, seem to like it because it gives them a feeling of clubbiness. Sophisticated travelers?or those who would like to seem sophisticated?would rather be caught in the Lido nightclub in Paris than be seen carrying Fielding's Guide (some leave it in the hotel room or carry it with a plain brown wrapper). As American tourists become more experienced, as travel becomes ever more natural and casual, Fielding will have to change or lose his popularity. But right...