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...down at poolside like a bull walrus minus his tusks and a billion clams, Veteran Actor Gabin blinks goodbye to his ill-gotten gains, filling the moment with memorable stupefaction. Best side bets of Any Number Can Win are glimpses of the human flotsam and jetsam beached on the Riviera, but all in all it is a cinematic gamble that never quite pays...
...threats of reduced aid fail, the United States should not stay in South Vietnam unless Diem and entourage depart. The palace occupants have not indicated any desire to join the previous resident, Emperor Bao Dai, on the Riviera, and there seems to be no easy way of getting them to go. No elections they conduct would turn them out of office. Free elections will have to wait at least removal of the Ngos. However, after the attempted coups in 1960 and 1962, which the U.S. failed to support, and the wild vacillation of Americans policy on a coup in recent...
...blow broke Von Karajan's reading glasses, drove the broken bits into his left eyelid and brow. But after a hurried flight to Paris, where specialists took 20 stitches to close the wounds, the conductor was assured of no permanent eye damage. And back on the Riviera, the flics, using his description, picked up a suspect who, it seemed, had visited the Von Karajans after unsuccessfully trying to break into Brigitte Bardot's home earlier...
Glass of Water. Lord Beaverbrook, plagued with ailments, stayed home on the Riviera, but chances are that as a man whose favorite painting is a Gainsborough, he would have recoiled from most of the choices. Although such top representational painters as Edward Hopper and Andrew Wyeth sent comfortably realistic scenes to settle the eye, there was plenty else to make it boggle, from Barnett Newman's eccentric, hard-edge stripes in his Black Fire to Robert Rauschenberg's Trophy II, a pop art combine in four pieces equipped with a real glass of water on a shelf with...
...Down on the Riviera, beneath a floppy straw hat, sits a contentious and indomitable press lord, Britain's Lord Beaverbrook, keeping an alert eye on his London Express, working on his 13th and 14th books and still full of rage and passion at 84. He is interviewed in PRESS...