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Salisbury social life was very lax. Lessing married the scion of a respectable family whom she did not love and produced two children. She walked out on that fledgling family to marry a Communist, Gottfried Lessing, with whom she had another child. Everyone drank, smoked and caroused. During her pregnancy by Lessing, she felt the need of an affair and nailed her man at once, a dedicated womanizer. By the end of the book she has moved to London with only the youngest child. (Though she saw Lessing when he too came to England, the relationship was over.) These facts...
FLORIDA: Lawton Chiles, 64, is another larger-than-life pol under pressure from a Bush scion (Jeb, 41). But unlike Richards, Chiles has had crucial help from a highly placed official -- Fidel Castro. Until refugee Cubans began braving the Florida Straits in early August, the folksy, eccentric Governor looked vulnerable to Bush's claims that he was out of touch with Florida's economic interests. By month's end, however, he was Florida's Horatius at the immigration bridge, prevailing upon a reluctant Clinton to intern at Guantanamo those rafters plucked from the sea. Almost overnight, Chiles commandeered Florida...
...trouble was that white-bread America couldn't identify with him. Enter Van Doren (played a little too stiffly by Ralph Fiennes), trying to pick up a few dollars to supplement his instructor's pay at Columbia University. He was a godsend. Not just any old Wasp, but the scion of arguably the nation's most distinguished literary family. His father was Mark Van Doren, Pulitzer- prizewinning poet and scholar; his mother was a novelist; his uncle, a famous historian; his aunt, editor of a respected book-review journal...
...surely the most unusual aspect of this musical Shangri-La is the fact that it is set on private property. It was built in 1934 at the will of Sir John Christie, the scion of a rich, ancient family, who saw it as a showcase for the talents of his new wife, lyric soprano Audrey Mildmay. The current proprietor, John's son George, makes his home right next to what could be called the family store...
There was no need for Marenches to introduce himself. His resume is intertwined with the history of France: scion of a noble family that traces its roots back to the 12th century, he fought in North Africa and Italy during World War II and served as liaison officer between De Gaulle and Eisenhower. In 1970 Georges Pompidou named him director of France's version of the CIA, the Service de Documentation Exterieure et de Contre-Espionnage, where he remained until...