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...restless, anarchic youth of Europe. Although her face is triangular and her figure suggests undernourishment, French magazines played her up as if she were Bardot. She played right back, danced all night at a Paris bar called New Jimmy's, raced off in sports cars to St.-Tropez, nearly got killed in an auto accident, twice got married and divorced, made and spent a fortune. "Riches don't keep anyone from feeling unhappy," she said, "but I prefer crying in a Jaguar to crying...
...mysterious code of the mysteriously well-connected, the shabby, fly-infested Hotel Tahiti in Saint-Tropez on the French Riviera is the place one goes to if one is too rich to bother with the Taj Mahal. Last week, amid the wandering beer barons and compliant courtesans, a newcomer dashed in and out in a bright succession of tight slacks and V-necked blouses, occasionally pausing to effulge a visitor with her smile, occasionally cutting out of the creepy joint in her baby-blue Ferrari...
Pompidou meanwhile has been given the task of leading the U.N.R. in the next French elections for parliament in March of 1967. In preparation, Pompidou has skipped his usual summer with the bikini set at Saint-Tropez this year, is already skimming the country in helicopters, cigarette plastered to his lower lip, campaigning. He has his work cut out for him. Public-opinion surveys show that the Gaullists are still France's leading political party, with some 30% of the voters' support. In parliamentary elections, that could well translate into as few as 150 seats...
...trip, Olson sends his readers on a 39-day Grand Tour of ten countries, and their second can be only to England, Ireland, Scotland and Scandinavia. If they're still with him after that, he recommends a really daring "off the beaten path" tour to Chartres, Biarritz, Saint-Tropez, Rome and Paris...
...shipping companies, but Rainier may be able to find a judge who agrees that Ari should be forced by law to sell his shares or give up his voting rights. Then, presumably, the way would be clear for Rainier to set about shaping his princely domain into another St. Tropez-or, who knows, perhaps another Nice...