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...veteran of six yacht crossings of the Atlantic-as a novice in 1960 he won the first transatlantic race-Chichester set out last August on an even more perilous journey. Lured by the prospect of traveling the route of the 19th century wool and tea clippers, Chichester embarked on a 14,000-mile trip from England to Australia, around South Africa and the Cape of Good Hope. Then a jaunty 64 years of age, the wiry, bespectacled mariner was, as he has ever been, by himself-this time in a 53-ft. yacht, Gipsy Moth...
Queen Elizabeth's household allowance comes to $1,330,000 a year, and the allowances for the rest of the family to nearly $500,000 more. What with six palaces, the royal yacht, the Queen's flight of six assorted aircraft plus the cost of royal trains, telephone and postage, the grand total is nearly $6,000,000. No doubt a republican president might be able to shave these royal expenses, but drab ex-politicians usually do not do the job as well as kings and queens who are trained for it. And the more flamboyant types, from...
...junk shops of Harlem whip out their trusty Geiger counter and go lickety-click from Teheran to Geneva to Naples to Nice. En route they run a grim gauntlet of all-too-familiar thriller scenes (bang-bang on the Blue Train, hugger-mugger on the bad guy's yacht, hack-the-stripper in a nudie nightspot) and unpleasantly overripe chestnuts ("How'll we get there-take the midnight camel?"). By the time the heroes get the heroin the customers may find themselves in something of a narcoma. The very best that can be said about this picture...
Among entertainers, a successful one-man show on Broadway is the equivalent in other circles of a 200-ft. yacht or a private indoor tennis court-way up near the top of the status symbols. This week the most popular of contemporary French singers, a sturdy, dark-haired theatrical dervish named Gilbert Becaud, winds up a three-week run that has put him in that tiny company of performers-Chevalier, Borge, Montand, Aznavour-who can conquer a Broadway stage on their...
...departs through a hotel window. Jimmy Rhodes dies of a precoital heart attack. Charles Kinsmith slips on the ice and expires after a bout of total recall. John Wesley Evans discovers that he is going blind. General Dixon L. Hightower quietly turns transvestite. Even Jack Harrison aboard his luxury yacht is oppressed by the thought that his crew plans to kill...