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...with no trace of the family's hereditary illness. But his younger daughter, Infanta Margarita, is blind. His older daughter, Infanta Pilar, 25, is now completing her nurse's training in Lisbon. Living in Lausanne, Switzerland, is Queen Victoria Eugenia, Alfonso XIII's English widow, 74, regal matriarch of the brood, and last surviving granddaughter of Britain's Queen Victoria...
There sat Diana Vreeland, a regal figure in black. For a quarter-century Diana had been fashion editor of Harper's Bazaar. But Diana was eying the procession as associate editor of Harper's rival, Vogue-having switched magazines last month. And of the lithe models doing their stylish slither down the inter-table runway, none so captured Diana's rapt attention as China Machado, 26, an exotic blend of Portugal and Siam, glorious in a cocktail-hour getup that included pants and an overskirt. China (pronounced Chee-nah) was there in two capacities: as a model...
...three small hamburgers ). Castro offered such stock excuses for the food failure as the Yankee boycott (although U.S. food exports to Cuba are still legal), but also acknowledged some of the shortcomings of collectivization. He wound up with a strange mixture of Marxist-Leninist self-criticism and the regal We. "Only a few months ago, we made formal promises of commitments we have not carried out," said Castro. "We are ashamed. Who is to blame? The administrators, the rulers and everyone...
Later in the week, Jackie let reporters and still photographers in for their first look at how she has redone the regal Red Room, long used for receptions before state dinners and now used mainly for ladies' teas. Its walls and silk draperies are a bright magenta trimmed in gold, setting off the portraits of eleven past U.S. Presidents. Thomas Jefferson has the place of honor over the mantel, taking the place of Mrs. Calvin Coolidge and her pet collie...
...ended in marriage, he was a competent freelance photographer. Weighing all these credentials, Roy Thomson, Canadian-born publisher of 93 papers, had hired Tony as "artistic adviser" to Thomson's prestigious London Sunday Times (circ. 1,022,913). The salary-a reported 7,500 quid ($21,000)-was regal enough on Fleet Street. But the rest of Fleet Street promptly hollered foul...