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...Lili! How low! "She is no sex bomb!" was Sovietskaya Kultura's left-handed welcome to coltish Leslie Caron, 34, as she flew into Moscow for the Russian premiere of her 1963 picture The L-Shaped Room-in which she lives with a penniless writer in a proletarian cubbyhole. If she were sexier, argued the newspaper's columnist, with something less than perfect logic, "she would have been forgotten long ago." Still, remembering her performances in An American in Paris and Lili, Moscow's Louella sighed approvingly: "She is a fine actress, always believable, and an excellent...
Chance in a Clutter. G. & W.'s power source is Chairman Charles Bluhdorn, 39, who has a hard-driving philosophy: "You have to break doors down-anybody can walk through them." A penniless World War II refugee from Austria, he began as a $15-a-week clerk in a Manhattan cotton-brokerage firm, rose to other jobs and founded his own coffee-trading office at 23. Within ten years he had made more than $1,000,000 buying coffee from the Brazilians and selling it to U.S. processors and chain stores. Casting around for a more stable business...
...Philadelphia's Main Line. He seldom rode in anything but a chauffeur-driven Rolls-Royce, dressed in $500 silk suits and usually wore a fortune in gem-encrusted rings. Yet he insisted that he owned not a jot or a tittle of his empire. And legally, he was penniless when he died. Said his lawyer: "He had nothing; he never had to pay any income...
Ironically, the Irish law was already so well publicized by the time it became effective last week that every major British lamister had long since flown the coop, leaving only about 70 penniless petty crooks to be extradited to Britain−and with glacial calm, British police had neglected to send effective warrants to Ireland for them. Indeed, Britain's own law still lacks the "royal assent" needed to make it official, leaving Britain's Irish fugitives safe for some weeks to come. When the new system does shake down, though, the crook's tour across...
...through the German Foreign Service to an administrative post in Bonn. Known to fellow diplomats as a Streber (go-getter), he is fond of fast cars-though an aging Porsche is all he can afford on a $400-a-month government salary. Thus, in many ways he resembles the penniless German princeling and junior executive who married Juliana in 1937 and became Prince Bernhard of The Netherlands. Besides, as Bernhard himself said last week, "you know, my daughter Beatrix is terribly in love with this man. What can you do? The days of the marriage de raison are over...