Word: winterers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lives with his British-born wife and their two young daughters in a $250,000 ranch house next to Las Vegas' Desert Inn golf course. Only recently has the slim, dark-haired entrepreneur begun to show signs that the jet-set life might appeal to him. Last winter, he launched a 147-ft. motor yacht and traded up from a Lockheed Jetstar to a white-and-green DC-9 jet in which he installed a lavish office. It was the first such plane in the world acquired for personal use; a second was sold later to Playboy Hugh Hefner...
Front-Page Surprise. As for relations between the U.S. and France, they reached a "turning point" with President Nixon's visit to De Gaulle last winter, said Pompidou. Present U.S. policy in Viet Nam "is viewed here with the greatest sympathy." He made no startling announcements regarding France's financial and economic problems, though he reiterated an oft-stated campaign theme that their solution depended on stimulating foreign trade. There was, in fact, little startling news anywhere in the conference, in sharp contrast to De Gaulle's habit of almost invariably springing a front-page surprise...
...exhibiting 65 photos of Hepburn in many of her greatest roles. There she was, the stage-struck young beauty in 1933's Morning Glory, the prim but game Rosie in 1951's African Queen, the indomitable Eleanor of Aquitaine in 1968's The Lion in Winter. Yet nothing could capture the essential Hepburn better than her pose in the 1939 Broadway production of The Philadelphia Story, as cool and serenely regal in slacks and blouse as Botticelli's Venus...
CHAMPLAIN SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL, University of Vermont Arena Theater, Burlington (July 22-Aug. 30). The professional repertory group will present The Winter's Tale, Othello and Richard...
Died. Frank King, 86, cartoonist, creator of the classic comic strip Gasoline Alley; of a heart attack; in Winter Park, Fla. In 1918, King invented Walt Wallet and his auto-buff cronies (later including Skeezix, Phyllis Blossom and many others) as part of a page of drawings for the Chicago Tribune; within a year Gasoline Alley was popular enough to run as a separate feature, recording the trials and triumphs of the Wallet family in what was once called "a quiet, faithful, tender picture of suburban America...