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...hero (Paul Newman) is a raucous young crown prince of the cue who challenges the king (Jackie Gleason) to do battle for his throne. For 36 hours without intermission, they have at each other: now hacking fiercely at the glistening balls, now waving their cues exquisitely, like pallid wands, as the balls disappear, and always drinking, drinking, drinking as they play. Hour by hour, rack by rack, the young challenger draws steadily ahead, grows steadily more arrogant. After 25 hours, playing for $1,000 a game, he is $18,000 in the green. "It's my table!" he crows...
...paintings and frescoes covered the walls of some of Europe's noblest palaces, from the Archbishop's Palace in Udine to the Prince-Bishop's Residenz in Wiirzburg to the throne room of King Charles III in Madrid. No man of his time was a greater master of drama and color, or knew so well how to unlock the secrets of light or to harmonize painting and architecture. Though he was sometimes guilty of slickness, his best paintings still stun the eye. He was the last of the great baroque artists, and it was not until just...
...water skis, Spain's Prince Juan Carlos, 23, has been one of Europe's most eligible bachelors. Tall (6 ft. 2 in.), blue-eyed and athletic, he has one added, increasingly rare attraction: a slightly better than outside chance that he will some day sit on a throne. His father is the Spanish Pretender, Don Juan de Borbón, who, Franco has more or less promised, may in due course be allowed to become King of Spain, and young Prince Juan Carlos might presumably some day succeed him. In the meantime, Franco has looked after Juan Carlos...
...triple wedding in Rabat's ornate Riad Palace last week was a fairly traditional Moslem affair. But King Hassan II departed from ancient convention: he wore a dark business suit while looking on from his pink throne. The three princesses all went through intricate prenuptial purification ceremonies, including a ritual dousing administered by female attendants. At the ceremony itself, they all wore veils. For Lalla Aisha, especially, the choice of husbands seemed felicitous. Her husband, Hassan al Yakoubi, is known as a widely traveled, fun-loving sportsman, more accustomed than most Moroccan men to the ways of emancipated women...
Contented as an engineer barreling down a table-flat track, Russell gave one final glance at the latest barometer readings in the mountain passes, then climbed two stories to his own eighth-floor throne room. There, folding his 6-ft. 1-in., 207-lb. frame behind a golden-oak desk, he sat down to ponder his constant problem: how to keep profits healthy while engaged in the nation's sickest major industry. Says one S.P. director: "Don spends 25% of his time thinking down the road...