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Avenues, colonnades, and shops were part of a rebuilding project begun about 400 A.D. Disaster struck this sumptuous quarter of the city some 200 years later when Persian invaders overran Sardis. Byzantine engineers later levelled the toppled columns, walls and other debris and on top laid a much humbler cobble-paved road...
...dining quietly with two good friends: Gérald van der Kemp, curator of the Versailles Palace, and Anna Rosenberg. President Truman's Assistant Defense Secretary. At nearby Eze-sur-Mer, U.S.-born Prince Youka Troubetzkoy and his beautiful princess. Sparkplug Heiress Marcia Stranahan, had left their sumptuous Villa Mayou to attend a formal dinner dance given by Boston Financier Serge Semenenko aboard Sir Bernard Docker's yacht Shemara. In the warm Mediterranean darkness, the surf pounded restlessly against the rocky Riviera coast. and the Riviera's storied second-story men went silently to work...
...Cover) A mild midwinter sun glinted on the sumptuous Uruguayan resort town of Punta del Este, 65 miles east of Montevideo. It was an odd setting for talk about poverty, but there last week, in the blue and white assembly hall of Punta del Este's Cantegril Country Club, the economic ministers of 21 hemisphere nations gath ered to launch a historically dramatic new program of massive aid for Latin America's underdeveloped nations - the Alliance for Progress (see THE HEMISPHERE...
...Niederschonhausen Palace, onetime residence of the wife of Frederick the Great, in the Pankow section of Berlin. There he puffs black cigars and barks orders in a guttural Saxonian accent that is the butt of gibes among his unwilling subjects. At day's end he retires to a sumptuous fieldstone house in the residential enclave for Communist bigwigs near Liepnitz Lake, where he, his Communist wife Lotte and a 17-year-old daughter share the comforts of a movie house, ballroom, restaurant, swimming pool, massage parlor and nuclear bomb shelter with the other top 20 families of East Germany...
Romance, in high-fashion terminology, means marabou feathers and encrusted chiffon, sumptuous embroidery and lacy swansdown, and involves moonlight only as an adjective for blue and roses only if they bloom on fabrics instead of bushes. Fur and crocheted collars are conspicuous, as are capes: Eleanora Garnett smocks them for daytime, Fontana cuts them in satin and velvet for evening, Faraoni makes sleeves of them for narrow dresses. Romantic, richly worked evening gowns slink to floor length, Gattinoni's narrow satin gowns come with heavily beaded apron fronts, and Top Designer Micol Fontana offers a blue velvet ball gown...