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...President's intestines. Those who voluntarily display themselves, including entertainers, are also presumed to have forfeited their right in some measure. In recent years entertainers have been loud in their pleas for privacy, including a Frank Sinatra, who will take a 20-year-old actress on a yacht trip and then complain that the press is invading his private life...
...also have the right to search for "exterior signs" of wealth-which might indicate, for example, that the owner of a $75,000 Copacabana Beach apartment really earned more than the $2,000 he declared on his tax form. At present, revenue agents are combing through membership lists in yacht and race-track clubs, checking the resources of Brazilian tourists abroad. Hostesses who once boasted about their cuisine now beg society columnists not to mention the delicacies served at their dinners...
...bore gifts for the 140 passengers-key rings for the men, Dior perfume and pins for the women. And the next morning, as the jet returned from New York, "Ari" the airman again formed a one-man welcoming committee. "Onassis follows the move ments of his tankers from his yacht and from his home by an occasional telex message," says Olympic Deputy Managing Director Ioannis Georgakis, "but he follows Olympic every day. He is thrilled...
Satirizing practically nothing, Up to His Ears sets up shop in Hong Kong, where Belmondo, as the bored-to-death young heir to a knitting-mills fortune, has anchored his yacht and tried to kill himself for the ninth time within a week. Someone suggests that he could turn his suicidal impulse to good account by insuring his life for $2,000,000 and letting himself be murdered. He does-and then meets Stripper Ursula, a girl worth living for. Fleeing a corps of assassins, the lovers go to the Himalayas and back by junk, ricksha, sampan, elephant, airplane...
...paper; after the war, she started her column, which soon became one of the most popular in Greece. A conservative who likes to needle the left, she once made fun of a prominent pro-Communist Deputy in Parliament who loves the good life enough to own a house, a yacht in Athens and an apartment in Paris. When she suggested in a subsequent column that the Deputy did not even believe in Communism, he angrily threatened to sue, and other left-wingers cheered him on. Said the columnist: "The left has no sense of humor...