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Radiant and wiggly in a silk dress and smiling sweetly at 700 howling fans, Sophia Loren, in that most hallowed of Hollywood rites, pressed her palms into the gooey cement before Grauman's Chinese Theater. She followed up with her footprints, pressed in with a twist, and then as a fillip below her signature, scrawled an Italian motto: Solo per sempre−only forever...
Down to the bowling alleys in his London constituency of Streathan to meet the mums and local blokes went Tory Stalwart Duncan Sandys, 54, once the husband of Winston Churchill's daughter Diana, but now showing off his French-born bride of three months, Marie-Claire, 33. His silk-sheathed wife knocked down eight at a blow. Then she looked on with pride as Prime Minister Macmillan's Commonwealth Secretary doffed his coat and on his very first roll bowled a tenpin strike...
...Gentile must be punished at least by ostracism, probably by death. Jacob is ransomed and eventually wanders to Lublin, but finds no comfort among the city's Jews, who seem to have forgotten the Cossack massacres. They have grown fat. "All this flesh was dressed in velvet, silk and sables. They were so heavy they wheezed; their eyes shone greedily. They spoke an only half comprehensible language of innuendoes, winks and whispered asides.'' Sickened by man and unable to love God, Jacob returns secretly to the Gazda village to find Wanda. They make their...
After dissolving two marriages (to Egypt's Princess Fawzia, Iran's Soraya) when they failed to yield a son, the Shah of Iran married 21-year-old Farah Diba (whose last name means silk) in December 1959. An olive-skinned beauty with lustrous brown eyes and soft, full lips, brainy, sports-loving Farah produced a boy in ten months and was duly named Empress by her grateful husband...
...ornate and heavily guarded Palais de Justice, ex-General Raoul Salan, 62, was on trial for his life, charged with treason. Wearing a well-cut grey suit and elegant Cardin silk tie, Salan looked more like a prosperous businessman than the head of the terrorist Secret Army Organization. It was hard to imagine, as Le Monde put it, "that such a man wielded such frightening power...