Word: houphouet
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...reigning beauties, for this week's color spread. Packing about 200 lbs. of special equipment, he jumped about from Brazil to Bangkok. Oddly enough, he came upon two of his reigning beauties about 15 miles apart, near the Swiss resort town of Gstaad. There he photographed Mme. Houphouet-Boigny, whose husband runs the Ivory Coast, and Philadelphia's Grace Kelly, whose husband runs Monaco. Halsman, who has known Princess Grace from her Hollywood days, finds her a cool customer, but "I consider her profile the most beautiful I ever photographed." Mme. Houphouet-Boigny looked fine in her Paris...
...amateur painters of competence. Jordan's Princess Muna and Brazil's Maria Tereza Goulart both think Frank Sinatra is the most. They are fond of serious music; almost all play the piano. Iran's Farah, the Ivory Coast's Marie-Thérèse Houphouet-Boigny and Monaco's Princess Grace all buy clothes from Dior, though Grace also fancies Balenciaga (who designed Belgian Queen Fabiola's mink-trimmed bridal gown), and in her Hollywood days was dressed by Oleg Cassini (now Jackie's couturier). Save for Fabiola, who had a miscarriage...
...Kennedy was obviously not in a retiring mood, and proved it during his White House reception for Ivory Coast President Félix Houphouet-Boigny and his stunning wife, Marie-Thérèse. There, Kennedy mixed politics, protocol and humor. Seated between Mme. Houphouet-Boigny and Mme. Ernest Boka, wife of the Ivory Coast Supreme Court Chief Justice, he regaled both women in his Boston-accented French. He even inquired about the designer of Mme. Houphouet-Boigny's dress; informed that it was by Balmain, Kennedy observed that this would disappoint Dior...
...Equal. For an after-dinner treat, there was a performance of Aaron Copland's ballet Billy the Kid. The guests went home still chuckling over Kennedy's graceful tribute to Houphouet-Boigny which was coupled with a comment about his own political situation. The Ivory Coast President, said the host, was certainly a distinguished individual, "and I am not alone referring to the fact that in a free election he was elected by 98% of the voters of his country-a record which has not been equaled recently in the United States, and from all I read, will...
Throughout the fiery '50s. when nationalism swept West Africa. Houphouet never abandoned his effort to bring about unity among the emerging black states under French guidance. When at last Charles de Gaulle's African Community crumbled. Houphouet was eloquently distressed: "I found myself waiting in front of the cathedral with the wilted flowers of the federation in my arms." Today he remains a friend of De Gaulle's; sometimes, referring to his hero's country home, he will call his own modest house in the village of Yamoussoukro "Colom-bey-les-Deux-Eglises." Houphouet-Boigny...