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...bride was serene until she reached the church vestibule, when she broke down and had a good cry. Margaretha then joined 150 guests at a reception under a domed, plastic tent. "Typical English weather," muttered Ambler, eyeing the falling rain. Then the newlyweds dashed for their car, which had been decorated with a sheaf of wheat, symbol of fertility. As they drove away, Ambler caught a handful of rice in the face, remarked, "It makes me feel like a wounded pheasant." After honeymooning in Sardinia, Mr. and Mrs. John Ambler will be at home at Wilton Crescent in London...
Married. Veronica ("Rocky") Balfe Cooper, 51, blonde and still beautiful socialite widow of Hollywood's Gary Cooper; and Dr. John Marquis Converse, 51, Manhattan plastic surgeon, whom she met when she moved back East after Coop's death in 1961; both for the second time; in a civil ceremony in Westport, Conn...
...sculptor of automobile parts, slept on the Lido beach, declared the marble-patterned Piazza San Marco to be the "world's greatest hopscotch arena" and hopscotched around it like a great shambling bear. Claes Oldenburg, as softly pudgy as his sculptures of melting typewriters made of vinyl plastic, politely ate his way through the festival. Rauschenberg himself was busy at Venice's elegant Teatro La Fenice, working with Merce Cunningham's avant-garde ballet troupe, for which he designs props and occasionally does choreography. Since his suitcase had gone astray between Paris and Venice, he was using...
Meanwhile Peppard bullishly amasses a fortune, exploiting "this new product -plastic," building up a transcontinental airline, and making lots of people miserable. His victims include Lew Ayres, Bob Cummings and Martha Hyer, a high-priced call girl who is summoned for stardom. To prevent all the plots and subplots from collapsing, Director Edward Dmytryk keeps a narrator warmed up to respond to the question, "How did it all happen?" with quick summaries of Robbins' lip-smacking prose. Thus Scenarist John Michael Hayes leaps 30 to 40 pages at a clip and distills the rest of it in dialogue that...
...statue of Buddha on the banks of the Saigon River suddenly blazed up in flames. Within minutes, an awed crowd had gathered, murmuring that surely a miracle had occurred to commemorate Thich Quang Due's sacrifice. As it turned out, however, the statue was made of highly inflammable plastic and had been accidentally ignited by a worker's acetylene torch...