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...blinds, shut tight all day against the Riviera sun, snapped open. A bustle of servants and bodyguards on the second floor of Cannes' Carlton Hotel proclaimed the fact that His Majesty was awake. Shortly afterwards, a fat man with a prematurely balding head and a rakish hussar's mustache, appeared on the hotel terrace, plumped his 225 pounds into a wicker chair and ordered a Coca-Cola. He wore the standard summer garb of the well-dressed Riviera yachtsman-grey flannel slacks, navy blue jacket and white yachting cap. The plump, darkly pretty young woman who accompanied...
...Vous Ai Eu!" In his 31 years, Farouk I has become known principally as a glutton, a high-stakes gambler and a wolf. On the Riviera this summer, he has added diligently to his reputation. The Carlton Hotel (where he and his entourage occupy 32 rooms at $2,000 a day) keeps chefs working round the clock because His Majesty might feel hungry at any hour of the day or night. For a typical lunch, he may consume bouchees a la reine, sole, mutton chops, chicken fricassee, a whole roast chicken, a whole lobster, mashed potatoes, peas, rice, artichokes, peaches...
...late, the King has been staying away from the casino. Observers have noticed other evidence that he is beginning to settle down. During past seasons in the sun, His Majesty has shown great interest in Riviera beauties (a local engraver used to be kept busy carving such dedications as "Pour Suzette," "A Jeanette" into souvenir rings and bracelets which the King liked to pass out among his female acquaintances). This year he has eyes only for his bride. Moreover, the flabby King is taking exercise-he has been observed splashing at the Eden Roc pool like a melancholy walrus...
...surrounding veld, crime has grown with it. Today, the city's 350,000 whites fear its 500,000 natives; and this fear is reciprocated. Johannesburg is probably the tensest city in the world to live in. Altitude (5,750 feet) and glare (Johannesburg gets more sunshine than the Riviera) increase the tension. The dry air crackles with fear...
...Riviera. Danny Kaye plays a double role in a cinemusical whose laughs, songs and dances sparkle as brightly as its Technicolor (TIME...