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...Recalling Baudouin's departure for a Riviera holiday at the height of Belgium's storm and flood disaster in 1953 and, a few days later, his return amidst a storm of criticism...
Medicine & Mushrooms. The prince soon demonstrated the qualities that make Laotians the despair of Western diplomats. A plump sybarite who in quieter times is fond of repairing to the French Riviera, Boun Oum announced no ringing program. Instead, he flew south most nights to sleep in his quiet and safe former headquarters, Savannakhet. At lunch, his favorite companions turned out to be not candidates for the cabinet but girls from the Vientiane dance halls...
...auditions for prospective backers; Fair Lady was sold without a single audition; now they just pick up the phone. CBS has put up the entire $480,000 cost of Camelot, and money now follows L. & L. wherever they go. They have yachts in the Mediterranean and villas on the Riviera. Lerner has a town house in Manhattan, and Loewe an airy glass pleasure-dome in Palm Springs, Calif. Each owns an $18,000 Rolls-Royce convertible; Loewe's is "black pearl" grey and Lerner's, according to a Rolls salesman, "not-quite-royal" blue...
...devout Moslem and is determined that his people shall not be swallowed up by the majorities around them. To this end, the serious young bachelor has traveled 264,000 miles in three years, sparing little time for the beautiful women and good life on the Riviera that both his grandfather and his father Aly Khan enjoyed. Says Karim, "I'm anti-irresponsibility...
...where Poet Archibald MacLeish, then Librarian of Congress, gave him a $45-a-week job collating bibliographies in the stacks. He has lived in Washington ever since; now, with a more lucrative contract from his publisher, he can afford an annual trip to the French Riviera. He never talks European politics in public, though he knew the secrets of 15 years of French diplomacy. His comments were saved for Chronicle, his latest work, which ends: "Summit of time, here are we! Measure the heart...