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...formation of an independent republic. Diplomatically, Elizabeth and Philip did not set foot in Quebec during their six-day visit. Rather than travel through largely French-speaking Montreal, their plans called for them to reach the Expo 67 islands by sailing down the St. Lawrence River in their royal yacht...
...young Parisian, bored with his job and his mistress, ships aboard a yacht owned by a rich and beautiful woman who has but one aim in life: to find a sailor from Gibraltar, who she feels was the love of her life. As she remembers him, he was no ordinary navvy: at 20, when they had their stormy affair, he was fleeing French law for "the murder of the American ballbearings king, Nelson Nelson." Though she has had no word of him in years, her yacht, with its crew of seven, seeks him in ports on the seven seas without...
...from a mild case of pneumonia and undergoing concurrent radiological treatment for what his wife, Actress Joan Plowright, describes as a "slight" cancer of the prostate; Elizabeth Taylor, 35, hobbling on crutches in and out of Princess Grace Hospital in Monte Carlo after a tumble aboard her rented vacation yacht Odysseia aggravated a chronic case of synovitis (knee inflammation) so badly that she may have to be operated...
...Charlotte Ford Niarchos," she wrote in her first column, "has been schlepping around the Greek islands with her ex-husband, Tanker King Stavros Niarchos, on his yacht Creole. This has been the most romantic divorce. Remember how sticky it was when they were married? Charlotte hardly ever saw Stavros, and the only thing she had to remember him by was her 61-carat diamond ring-and the baby, of course...
...long ago, the idea of a Czechoslovak Film Festival would have seemed as unlikely as a yacht regatta in Peking. When Ján Kadár's The Shop on Main Street was shown at New York's Lincoln Center Film Festival in 1965, it had no U.S. theater bookings; neither did Miloš Forman's Loves of a Blonde, when it opened the festival the following year. Shop went on to win an Oscar as the year's best foreign-language film, while Blonde, accompanied by delighted reviews, eventually proved a profitable box-office...