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...whale's decay at last turns a pinch-nosed public against him, Rade is still despised-he loses mistress, friends, job and wits. Finally, he feels a kinship with the whale. Big Mac is destroyed, and Rade, who can think of society only as pagan, goes to a hilltop and shouts down on Belgrade: "Armageddon! Armageddon! Armageddon!" Big Mac and Rade, Kos says, have shared an "experience of men." It is an experience, Kos finds, all the more pathetic because it is grand, all the more grave because...
...acres) in order to reign over Monaco (368 acres), Grace has made a home of the old, 200-room palais princier, which had fallen into disuse when Prince Rainier lived in bachelor discomfort on Cap Ferrat. Redecorated, replumbed and filled with flowers, the hilltop palais princier echoes again to the laughter of frequent guests and splashings from the heated pool that Grace built...
...prefers to be known as Japan's most cosmopolitan city. Its tourist bureau seldom steers visitors to atomic landmarks, celebrates instead the city's lantern-lit nightclubs and restaurants (specialties: sugared shaddock, peeled loquats), its 17th century Dutch colony and the Nipponese-Gothic mansion, built on a hilltop by a British tycoon in 1850, that Nagasaki fondly identifies as the "original home'' of Puccini's Madama Butterfly...
...host at a party for 75 newsmen at his new, $135,000 spread in Beverly Hills, but he might as well have tagged along with the guests on the guided tour that his daughters conducted through the white-carpeted rooms. Since moving into the four-bedroom, six-bathroom hilltop ranch house last month, the hard-running gubernatorial aspirant has spent only two nights there. Peppery Julie Nixon, 13, could understand, for she was doing some politicking herself-in the ninth-grade class at Marlborough School. Though she was home in bed on election day with a bump on her head...
Spayd became president of Standard in 1944, following the death of both Sherman brothers. He built up a hard-hitting, 750-man sales force whose members were chosen for their love of selling, and then stuffed full of technical data. At the company school, a hilltop mansion outside Dayton, all new Standard salesmen are given classroom training in business forms design, office systems analysis and paperwork simplification. The trainees live in isolation at the school, where the front door is locked promptly at midnight...