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Vault in the Vatican. Her love of art helped sever her from the stern Lutheranism that her father preached by the sword. Contrary to the religious statutes of her country, Christina converted secretly to Roman Catholicism in 1654. She left Sweden ostensibly to visit a spa to the south, then set out across Germany disguised as a knight, and a year and a half later entered Rome regally. Legend has it that she wore embroidered gilt breeches to her first Communion...
...film festivals go, the biennial splash at the baths of Karlovy Vary, Czechoslovakia, seldom causes more than a ripple of interest in the world of cinema. Last week, however, the centuries-old spa-known as Carlsbad when Dostoevsky used to gamble away rubles at the casino, while the crowned heads of Europe took the waters to prolong their reigns-was jammed with film buffs, critics, buyers and distributors from all across Europe and the U.S. None of them had anything more than a peripheral interest in the dreary assortment of 42 films from such ersatz Hollywoods as Mongolia and Tunisia...
...fringe, he still makes a handsome living from virulent pamphleteering and donations to his rabid, California-based Christian Nationalist Crusade. By way of apostrophizing his movement, Smith, 68, has just erected a $250,000 snow-white statue of Jesus Christ atop 1,500-ft. Magnetic Mountain near the Arkansas spa community of Eureka Springs...
Like Ballpark Hot Dogs. Last week the old spa took on a fresh eminence with the opening of the Saratoga Per forming Arts Center, the most impres sive of the many new U.S. summer theaters. Nestled in a pine-fringed hollow, the center will be the summer residence of George Balanchine's New York City Ballet and Eugene Ormandy's Philadelphia Orchestra. The theater itself, designed by Manhattan's Vollmer Associates, is one of the world's largest, seating up to 5,100 inside and another 7,000 outside. People who perch on the upward-sloping...
...WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS (ABC, 5-6:30 p.m.). The National A.A.U. Out door Track and Field Championships at Randall's Island, N.Y.; the Grand Prix of Belgium in Spa; the final hours of the Le Mans 24-hour Grand Prix of Endurance...