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...city to remind people how close the attackers are. The population -200,000 in normal times-has shrunk to about 100,000, including the troops and 40,000 refugees who were too poor, too tired or too sick to continue the flight south. The imperial palace stands in decaying splendor, surrounded by ancient walls through which gaping holes were blasted in the bloody fighting of 1968. Now the old city sits under a blistering sun and waits for war to come to it again...
Divorced. Natalie Wood, 33, doe-eyed child actress who grew into fully adult roles (Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice, Splendor in the Grass); and Richard J. Gregson, 41, talent agent and sometime film producer (Downhill Racer);, after three years of marriage, one child; in Santa Monica, Calif...
...Garcia Marquez in the humor, the color and detail, the easy access to magic balanced by harder ironies. In The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World, ostensibly written for children, the inhabitants of a fishing vil lage discover a magnificent corpse on the beach, and in marveling at its splendor come to recognize the meanness of their own lives. In another story, a flea-bitten old angel makes a mysterious appearance...
...have had a point. For most of the 20 players in this year's World Championship of Pocket Billiards-a black-tie name for straight pool-seemed uncomfortable in their cummerbunds. There was something similarly uneasy about the championship setting; three neon-lit tables amid the faded splendor of the Great Lodge Hall in the Elks Building of downtown Los Angeles...
...from the old days of the British raj and the white man's burden, but some vestigial splendor remained as Britain's Queen Elizabeth II, Prince Philip and Princess Anne began their five-week tour of Southeast Asia with a five-day state visit to Thailand. Prince Philip -uniformed as an Admiral of the Fleet-commanded the royal launch as it left the royal yacht and swooshed up to Bangkok's royal pier, where the English royals were greeted by the Thai royals, King Bhumibol and Queen Sirikit. Then there was a ride in the royal Daimler...