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...Sinatra going to follow all that? His abdication announcement last week said he looked forward to contemplation, "writing a bit" and "perhaps even to teaching." The rest of the six-paragraph statement, released to Suzy, a syndicated gossip columnist and sometime Sinatra girl friend, was an apologia pro vita sua. After sermonizing on the brotherhood of man, he summed up his three-decade career: "Fruitful, busy, uptight, loose, sometimes boisterous, occasionally sad, but always exciting." Why did he want out? Because "there has been little room or opportunity for reflection, reading, self-examination and that need which every thinking...
...VITA! VITA!" the pretty blonde shouted in Swahili. "Attack! Attack!" There, surrounded by hundreds of Kenyan schoolboys, was Britain's Princess Anne, cheering on the home side's soccer team. The princess, on a fortnight's tour of Kenya with her brother Prince Charles, was visiting a Nairobi home for 1,000 destitute and orphaned African boys. The school is supported by the Save the Children Fund, of which the princess is president...
...week Varadero-to-Miami flights. Though no new exit permits have been issued since 1966, some 130,000 people who were granted permits before that time are still waiting to join the 600,000 Cubans who have departed for what Castro scornfully calls "the dolce vita and the consumer society." What the critics do suggest is that socialist Cuba is in dire trouble. They argue that Castro's charisma has worn thin and that his reliance on Russian aid will not solve his problems. "One wonders," says Karol flatly, "if he has not mortgaged the entire future...
...Italian publisher who left a Milan orphanage at 17 to become a printer, built a publishing empire encompassing ten weekly magazines (20 million readers), became a film producer and sponsored more than 150 films by such leading directors as Michelangelo Antonioni (Red Desert) and Federico Fellini (La Dolce Vita); of complications from gall bladder disease; in Milan...
Shades of La Dolce Vita−4 a.m. in Rome and Amazonian Anita Ekberg in full cry. Six carabinieri were needed at the Cavalieri Residence to quell the disturbance. It seems that Anita, after waltzing home all aglow with vita and vino, had yanked the covers off her sleeping spouse, Sometime Actor Rile.von Nutter. "I didn't want to hit her in the face," Rik explained. "I just turned her over my knee and gave her the reddest butt you ever saw. And that's not a tiny bottom...