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ANYONE NEAR A TELEVISION set could see and hear Henry Kissinger this summer Apparently the White House decided that Kissinger is more frightening unseen than seen, for after three camerashy years, first the plump form and then the Germanic accent appeared in the American living room. If the Administration had extended its logic it might have welcomed David Landau's book. Kissinger The Uses of Power, but of course, the government wants not to illuminate Kissinger but merely to spotlight his more attractive points...
...Beach pool. The royal family won last year-Prince Rainier remaining regally dry on the sidelines -but this time 17 other local families provided more of a battle. Rainier's youngest daughter Stephanie, who is only seven, got off to a slow start, then Princess Grace, a somewhat plump 42, plunged in and gained a bit. Albert, 14, swam best of all, but he was barely able to pull the first family into second place...
...personalities are friends of the photographers. We come to know them on a first name basis only: Danny, Stefan, Jim & Ron, Jack, Bill, Larry, Tony, Nicko. Photographer Rosalyn Gerstein brings us "Betty on the Beach", rather plump and enjoying the ocean up to her ankles with a few lady friends. Wendy S. MacNeil shows Elizabeth Saltonstall kindly staring at us with her heritage eyes. Lee Post found four young and Lolitaesque Cambridge girls giving different renditions of the sexiest pose. Lawson Corbett's "Guys will be dolls" showed the transvestite in the dressing room--slick, sexy, and confusing. William...
...already been done, so there is not much point in doing it again," he says. "But there are some records for quick passages which have held good since the days of the square-riggers. It would tickle me pink to beat one of those." Meanwhile, he can collect some plump publishing and endorsement fees (the race's official first prize is simply a 12-in. silver plate) and continue paying off the borrowed money he has sunk into Pen Duick IV. Says Fiancée Teura: "Everything has gone into the boat. So Alain...
Elsewhere, the pleasingly plump issue (132 pages) makes for better reading. The critical sections-books, ballet, music, films-are excellent. There is a warm, highly readable story on Philanthropist Louis Schweitzer, an intriguing discussion of world mass-transit problems, and a thoughtful piece on the future of education. Selden Rodman, the Haiti buff, contributes an upbeat piece on life in the Caribbean republic. A photo spread of aerial landscapes shot by Dr. George Gerster, a Swiss science editor, is beautifully laid...