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...Margot Fonteyn-Dame Commander of the British Empire,* star of Covent Garden's Royal Ballet, top ballerina of the Western world-cast a large, limpid brown eye through her camera view finder and pressed the little button. A flashbulb's white glare froze a busy scene against the black of a tropic night on the Gulf of Panama, in the Pacific. Dame Margot's husband Roberto ("Tito") Arias-scion of one of Panama's 20-odd leading families and recently (1955-58) his nation's Ambassador to the Court of St. James...
Frightfully keen on Caribbean uprisings (she was a stout supporter of Fidel Castro), Dame Margot joined Tito in Panama a fortnight ago just as he decided to have a go at overthrowing President Ernesto de la Guardia. But Tito ran into trouble from the moment he tried to get his arms and his seven-man army together on an invasion-bent shrimp boat named Elaine (he is part owner of a fishing fleet). In a chartered yacht named Nola, he rendezvoused with Elaine and a pair of arms-laden outboard-motor boats. One of the outboards' cargoes was transferred...
...Deux. Undaunted, Tito and Dame Margot a few days later assembled Nola, Elaine and a second shrimper, Mary Ann, to raise the sunken arms. As they brought up the boat, Tito talked enthusiastically of his plan to attack a National Guard post. Mary Ann headed for port, Elaine took the outboard in tow, and Tito headed for a secluded island to finish the arms transfer undisturbed except for the pop of Dame Margot's flashbulbs. But the spoilsport crew of the Mary Ann, reaching port, spilled the whole plan to the National Guard...
...Guard hired a light plane to spot the invasion fleet and a pair of lumbering launches to chase it. Tito divided his forces, left Dame Margot weeping aboard Nola as he and Elaine churned off over the horizon. When the Guard's launches appeared, Margot led them away from Elaine, then scooted back to Panama City. Tito went ashore close to his family farm, 75 miles west of the capital...
...expert, to 30 of the finest blooded fillies in London. Dair & Co. had cause to hear a betting and breeding lecture. As students at the Cygnets House, the most exclusive finishing school in England, they must learn to "talk politics with Eden at lunch on Monday, ballet with Dame Margot on Tuesday, racing with Aly Khan on Wednesday...