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...small pond on the Mediterranean, journeyed to a bigger pool at Gstaad, Switzerland for a vacation with Princess Grace. There he alienated music lovers and continued his vendetta against cameramen by showing up at a concert with Grace ten minutes late, strong-arming a photographer who tried to snap him and his half-sprouted goatee. Then, at intermission, petulant Rainier walked out on Violinist Yehudi Menuhin and Composer Benjamin Britten before a performance of five of Britten's short pieces...
Oklahoma's burly, scrappy Robert Samuel Kerr is a Democratic multimillionaire (Kerr-McGee Oil) who snap-shoots from the hip when he hears a rustling in the brush. Indiana's jowled Homer Earl Capehart is a Republican millionaire (Capehart radio-TV) who usually prefers to wait for another day. Last week Snap-Shooter Bob pressed Hesitant Homer too far, and the Senate echoed with high-priced debate. Subject: Dwight Eisenhower's brains...
...Snap & a Taillight. The baling-wire-and-razor experiments are part of a do-it-yourself program intended to find ways to contrive laboratory equipment from cheap and available materials. The doo-dlers have already produced a strobe unit -a simple optical device for cutting up motion into a series of split-second visual pictures-out of two tongue depressors, the flat top of a tin can, a woman's dress snap and a piece of baling wire. A way of demonstrating wave mechanics was developed by shining an automobile taillight through a window frame of agitated water...
...scabby sheep" thesis (i.e., a cleansing of the party) and to speed the old Stalin associates to exile, if not to death. The stage arrangements, the cues picked up by party workers all over the country, seem too patly rehearsed to have been the outcome of a chance, snap meeting...
...Them-Eat-Stanislavsky mood, torn-T-shirt-school Cinemactor Anthony Franciosa ground his teeth and glowered while a deputy city attorney recounted his misdeeds. Franciosa fractured the peace two months ago when, according to the lawman, he place-kicked a press photographer who was trying to snap him with his then great and good friend (now wife) shock-haired Cinemactress Shelley Winters. "It would not have been seemly to have had my picture taken with Miss Winters. I was still married," Franciosa explained after the fracas. When the prosecutor demanded that he be jailed "for the protection of society," Franciosa...