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Basking beside the Mediterranean were a couple of Europe's comeliest blonde princesses. As she modestly took umbrage behind a beach blanket to foil photographers at Sainte-Maxime on the French Riviera, Sweden's bouncy Princess Birgitta, 24, might have thought that her already five-week honeymoon with Prince Johann Georg of Hohenzollern, 28, would go on forever. After all, just down the coast near Viareggio, Italy, were Belgium's lissome Princess Paolo, 23, and Prince Albert, 27, on the beach with young son Prince Philippe as they celebrated their second anniversary...
While the tractors-for-prisoners negotiators cooled their heels in their Havana Riviera suites (see THE NATION), the bearded dictator was having a high old time with the U.S. reporters who flew down to cover the proceedings. The tractor experts saw Castro only for 5½ hours. The press got a lot more...
...which had made the cease-fire its only small condition for attending the conference, had no ready counter. The pro-Western Laotian Premier, Prince Boun Oum, who has been sitting on the Riviera doing nothing in particular, was not much help. "The Pathet Lao are the strongest on all fronts," he wailed. "They will capture Vientiane, Luangprabang, Savannakhet, anything they want. Nothing can stop them." Prince Boun Oum hoped to get together with his rival princes to plead for peace. But Prince Souvanna was openly contemptuous. "Boun Oum is playing hide-and-seek," he said. "If we would...
Dolls & Toy Soldiers. Alexandre was brought up on the French Riviera. Born Alexandre Raimondi, he claims descendance from a general who fought against Napoleon in the Italian campaign. Though he has carefully preserved the sabre and other military relics of his illustrious ancestor, Alexandre says: "From a very early age, I preferred dolls to toy soldiers, dolls whose hair I could work up into curls and chignons." Shortly after World War II he was discovered by the Begum Aga Khan, having already won a local reputation as "The King of the Egg Shampoo"; the Begum passed...
...amid vague hopes that Kennedy and Khrushchev might have some new ideas at Vienna. The peace talks at Ban Namone, deep in the jungle, had dwindled to thrice-a-week meetings between second-stringers. Pro-Western Premier Prince Boun Oum flew off to one of his favorite places, the Riviera, ostensibly to talk to Sihanouk...