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...royal family's social activity has been limited to the King's first love-sports events. Last week he escorted the Queen and Princess to the international horse show at Piazza di Siena. He recently took up golf. He has not set foot in a sailboat, though, and was disappointed to find that Rome does not have a single squash court...
ELLEN: Aw. Some of these little guys tear you up. This one has scribbled a picture of a beach, a sailboat, a seagull, and a name....Jayne, it says, very faintly...
After such arduous tasks, the King repairs to his equally strenuous hobbies. Not long ago he built a 13-ft. sailboat and sailed it across the Gulf of Siam, a 16-hour crossing. He was accompanied by a small flotilla escort of the Royal Thai Navy, and a motorboat using a new design of jet propulsion that Bhumibol himself had conceived. His current project: a do-it-yourself helicopter (see MODERN LIVING). Last week, as the King and Queen were enjoying the first of the monsoon rains, breaking the most torrid weather in years, news of the discovery...
...Castro or lack the patience to wait as much as five years for a plane seat, there are other routes. Last week four Cubans hijacked a 43-ft. government mineral-resources boat and tootled into the Florida Keys. Seven others put into Marathon, Fla., in a 16-ft. sailboat, and the U.S. Coast Guard rescued an other twelve Cubans in a small craft just off the Cuban coast. But the week's boldest...
Giuliana reveals her deepest fantasy to her little son, and the setting changes to an unspoiled beach where water, previously shown as polluted, is shown as clear and clean. The small, white sailboat which appears, in contrast to the grimy oil tankers which have drifted through the film before, represents escape and freedom. The rock formations along the shore, like the rocks in L'Aventurra, have a shape and character which nearly animates them. Antonioni, by this purely visual statement, gives us an idyllic alternative with which to measure the industrial world, either sordid or sterile, in which we live...