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Since Generalissimo Francisco Franco, 72, would ahunting go, Spain's entire Cabinet joined him at his "el Pardo" reserve in the frosty hills of Guadarrama. Though a number of ministers shivered under their parkas in the shooting stands, el Caudillo happily tilted his rifle at wild boar and stag, wearing merely a sweater beneath his business suit. At day's end, he democratically announced only the group's total bag of 76 assorted animals, one of which was nailed by Francisco Franco Martinez Bordiu, 11, the dictator's grandson and namesake...
Julie Harris plays a would-be actress who is too unnerved by auditions to try for any parts. Since her rent-controlled Manhattan apartment costs so little, she sublets it and lives off her tiny capitalistic mite. Her latest boarder (Lou Antonio) is a big Hollywood stag hiding out from his studio. He has been afflicted with a bad case of that integrity rash that Hollywood celestials periodically get from banking lots of money...
...that will be wonderfully satisfying to restless schoolgirls in Great Falls. Everyone is crude but beautiful, and Max Steiner's busy background music puts every known human emotion into italics. Champagne flows. Famous critics stagger to their feet at parties, uttering dire absurdities about "the prime young stag hunted to death by rich hunters." Youngblood is hounded to the bed of a sleek, wealthy matron (Genevieve Page). He goes on to acquire the Pulitzer Prize, his own publishing house, part ownership in a shopping center-and bankruptcy, moral and fiscal. Finally, while penning another doorstopper...
...sseldorf status seeker shelled out $12,500 for a 660-lb. European brown bear. That was just a warmup; Koprivnica gamekeepers are carefully pampering an even bigger bruin for the same hunter to pot this fall-at a cost of $15,000. A run-of-the-hill red stag costs about $350 in Yugoslavia, but a Swiss hunter who was lucky-or unlucky-enough to bag a "world class" stag got socked with a $10,500 bill...
Western visitors are also well advised to bone up on local folklore. In the Yugoslav mountains, a stag shoot is followed by a quaint little ceremony in which the hunter bends over with his head between the horns and tries to answer three riddles posed by the guide...