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SAVANNAH, GA., is a river city near the coast that has been restored to its antebellum splendor-except for its bustling port. In fact, so passionately did city fathers court a giant paper mill during the 1930s that they obligated the city to "protect and save" the mill "from any claims, demands or suits for the pollution of air or water." In the event of a suit, the city agreed to pay the first $5,000 of the company's legal costs. Today the paper mill has been joined by a clutch of chemical companies and other industries...
...turn, the people were shaped by the city's topography. To the west lies the splendor of 70 continuous miles of white sandy beaches. This coastline enhances transcendental (as opposed to commercial) values. Says Banham: "A man needs only what he stands up in-usually a pair of frayed shorts and sunglasses." In contrast are the foothills, where grand houses perch precariously on steep, lush gardens, the perfect incubators of the "fat life" of affluence and privacy...
...markedly from American ones. An eye catching picture neatly captured that difference: there was America's bareheaded Chief Justice Warren E. Burger straining in ear-cupped intensity to hear speeches, while the British Lord Chancellor, Lord Hailsham, and the British Attorney General, Sir Peter Rawlinson, sat in bewigged splendor. ··· Not for nothing did the jet-set society earn its sobriquet. People arrive and depart from it with supersonic suddenness, though few have managed to do so as discreetly as Talitha Getty, the glamorous 31-year-old wife of Paul Getty Jr. After she died of what...
...stricter with her young than she was with herself. The secrets of her success were morning mass, diligent diet, a two-mile walk daily, frequent catnaps and "movement and action" as antidotes to despair. "How you cope is the important thing, not the events themselves," she says. Splendor aplenty had always accompanied her father's dockside determination, and Rose's fondness for French couture, parties and travel is also important: she sees herself as a Christian, not a martyr...
...CLASSMATE lunged frantically into the carpeted splendor of the Essex Country Club locker room, just in time to pitch the blending of a New England boiled lobster, a day's worth of bloody marys, gin and tonics, and scotch-on-the-rocks, and a schedule of tennis, golf, and after-dinner dancing squarely into the hopper. At first, he only groaned; his hands anchored to the enamel circle, he prayed for his heart to fall back into first without tearing out the transmission. And then he began with methodic attention to wipe from his face the vomit and sweat...