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...became one of the highest-paid models of the 1960s with an 84-lb. body and measurements of 32-22-32. Now weightier by a scant 7 Ibs. Twiggy, 26, arrived at London's Ritz Hotel last week to plug her new autobiography and announce that she is branching out into matrimony. Her intended: American Actor Michael Whitney, 42. "She isn't much of a cook, but she makes a fabulous egg-and-chips and spaghetti sauce," says Whitney of his fiancée, whom he met more than two years ago. Though her modeling and acting careers...
...Somebody asked us the other day on a television program, 'Gee, you're such wholesome people, how could you go around asking people all these dirty questions?"' Anne Taylor Fleming, curled up snugly beside her husband Karl in the couch in their suite at the Ritz, raises herself up on her haunches, her deep-set cat's eyes flashing indignantly. "And I said to her, 'Is how you lost your virginity a dirty question?' I mean...
...Paris' elegant Hotel Ritz, the champagne flowed until the small hours. Beaming U.S. Air Force generals mingled with aircraft executives and diplomats. The party's host, General Dynamics Corp. of St. Louis, had every reason to splurge. After more than a year of knee-and-gouge competition, Belgium had decided to buy the company's F-16 fighter-interceptor instead of the French Dassault Mirage F1-M53 as a replacement for aging U.S. F-104 Starfighters. That clinched what everyone was calling "the arms deal of the century...
...from their taxes and that the taxes paid by the Broadway area should be pumped back into it. Subsidies from public and private sources already support the flourishing nonprofit theaters that now feed Broadway. The most promising young playwrights have come from them too. Terrence McNally (Bad Habits, The Ritz) got his start at the Manhattan Theater Club. So did Mark Medoff (The Wager, When You Comin' Back, Red Ryder?). It was New Haven's Long Wharf Theater that introduced the best young British playwrights. Sam Shepard, perhaps the most promising young playwright, had his first success...
...atmosphere of uncertainty is taking a heavy toll on tourism and foreign investment. At Lisbon's 300-room Ritz last week, there were fewer than 40 guests. Because of fears for the country's economic stability, Portugal's 2 million workers abroad have cut back sharply on the funds they customarily send home. In a television broadcast last week, Premier Gonçalves exhorted migrant workers to pay no heed "to the defamatory and reactionary campaigns of certain organs of information" and to come home and "verify that the country is happier than the sad Portugal...