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...Angeles International Airport went smoothly enough; walking off the jumbo jet in London, however, proved to be Actress Rita Hayworth's undoing. When her plane landed at Heathrow Airport after the ten-hour flight, the flaming redhead star of such '40s films as Gilda and Blood and Sand, now 57, flatly refused to disembark. "Miss Hayworth started shouting and waving her arms about," said an airline official. "She did not want to leave the plane." When she finally agreed to go more than a half-hour later, aides quickly spirited her away to the airport health office. Said...
...capacity to induce guilt, and [America's capacity to absorb] guilt is what makes us most human as well as, at times, a bit absurd. It is said that if a Communist regime were to take over in the Sahara, there would in time be a shortage of sand. We shall doubtless in time have tested that hypothesis, but we can be fairly confident that to the very end there would be those in the West convinced that the sand had gone to build swimming pools for the rich-in the West. Yeats sensed the mood: "Come fix upon...
...Walt Disney adventure picture titled Treasure of Matecumbe, recalled Peter Ustinov, 54. Asked to turn away from the camera so his stuntman-double could take over, the well-rounded star stumbled and tore some ligaments in his legs. "The trouble was that my feet were planted in sand," explained Ustinov. "While I turned, my feet didn't. I was hit by a few hundred gallons of water, did an elegant curtsy and sat down." In all, the disabled actor will have spent three weeks sitting down -and a few more hobbling around on crutches-by the time his ligaments...
...seat confirms Newton's third law of motion. The air is piercingly fresh, and the desert mountains glow golden in the morning sun. But soon the drive will become a spastic, three-hour Cinerama focused on 100 miles of lifeless mesquite moonscape-beginning in Laughlin and running across sand washes, over mountains, around canyons and back. "Howdy doody!" Evans yells, skipping the yellow truck over a 5-ft. ravine. "I can't stay away. Racing off-road is like narcotics to a dope addict...
...smoked cigarettes for a while and even tried a pipe, disclosed Actress Rosemary Harris, but "I had never smoked cigars before." That is, not until she was cast as 19th century Novelist George Sand in the new public-television series Notorious Woman. Sand (née Aurore Dupin) not only indulged a taste for tobacco, but for men as well, including Composer Frédéric Chopin, Poet Alfred de Mussel and Novelist Prosper Merimee. "I don't have the incredible energy she had," said Harris, 48, suggesting that "a thyroid condition" might have accounted for Sand...