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...also becoming addicted to the stars. A favorite society astrologer is lissome "Cappy" Badrutt, the California-born wife of the proprietor of the Palace Hotel in St. Moritz, who has done horoscopes for Rita Hayworth, Paris Vogue Editor-in-Chief François de Langlade, the Aga Khan, Mrs. Herbert von Karajan, and Baroness Thyssen. Cappy says that a growing number of businessmen are also interested in the practice, because "in these times of uncertainty, people are groping for an answer...
...actors are plainly demoralized. Quinn, who plays a head-shaven Kublai Khan, just sort of sits there on his throne looking like Yul Brynner with a nasty case of jaundice. Welles, who plays a Venetian savant, is all dressed up to look like Leonardo da Vinci, but then he queers the pitch by muttering something about a navigational device he calls an "astrolobe." Horst Bucholz, who plays the acrobattling hero, obviously doesn't have the thighs for this sort of work, but he makes up for that with some of the niftiest karate ever seen in medieval Persia...
...into places no one would have imagined. The Air Cav's noisy "gunships" have developed to a fine art the use of their rocket artillery in close support of the heliborne troops. As a result the Air Cav moves faster and hits harder than any army since Genghis Khan...
...only hope to begin with. Best of all was the do at the Palazzo Volpi given by Countess Nathalie Volpi di Misurata, Count Volpi's mother. Not very many movie people got invited, of course, but the Maharajah and Maharani of Jaipur were there, and the Begum Aga Khan was there, and Gina Lollobrigida was there, and Princess von Furstenburg, and Sam Newhouse, and Mrs. Amintore Fanfani, and a number of Bourbon-Parmas, Rothschilds, Patiños, Dubonnets, D'Arenbergs, Romanoffs, Colonnas and Borgheses. It was the best film festival any of them could remember...
...identity. Across the country, monuments to China's own rich history came tumbling down. In Hangchow, a stone column commemorating a visit to the city by the 17th century Manchu Emperor Kang Hsi was pulled down. Though he brought more territory under Chinese rule than anyone since Genghis Khan, Kang Hsi had also allowed Catholic priests into the country and had approved China's first treaty with Russia, thus forfeiting his right to a place of honor in Mao's new China...