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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...refute it." So far the young princess has been content to ride, sail, party, ski and tend to the ribbon-cutting chores that are the appointed lot of royalty. Though Prince Philip reportedly told a friend he would like to see his daughter "gain some sort of solid achievement," he quickly added: "It is difficult to know in what...
...robe. Justice William O. Douglas, chairman of the conference, strode through the bar with his miniskirted blonde wife in tow. The place was jammed with students in opentoed sandals, bearded scientists, well-tailored businessmen, lawyers and politicians. A star of the meeting turned out to be Arvid Pardo, a sort of superdiplomat who serves as Malta's delegate to the U.N. and the Maltese Ambassador to Washington and Moscow. Three years ago, Pardo introduced a U.N. resolution calling for an international authority to administer the oceans and ensure that the seabeds would be used for peaceful purposes. Result: appointment...
Hollywood has caught up at last. Wilder, 35, has lately been besieged with scripts and has sifted through them with his own brand of mad logic. What sort of actor would turn down a tempting offer from Mike Nichols to play in Catch-22, but accept the lead role as a Dublin manure spreader in a film improbably titled Quackser Fortune Has a Cousin in The Bronx? To everyone's good fortune (especially his own), Wilder did just that. Says he: "Quackser was the idealization of everything I've wanted to do as an actor. He typifies where...
Miss Mitford has since written another book, The Trial of Dr. Spock, and turns out several magazine articles a year. She is currently preparing a piece for Saturday Review on the civil rights of prisoners. "I don't think of myself as a muckraker," she insists. "One just sort of falls into these articles...
...Consolidated Gas to abandon its housing projects. A subsidiary had built low-rent town houses in the Detroit ghetto and downtown apartments for the elderly and planned three more projects in other Michigan cities. The SEC acknowledged the "meritorious" nature of the program, but contended that it was the sort of outside activity forbidden by the Public Utility Holding Company Act. The Detroit News acidly pointed out that the act was supposed to prevent utility holding companies from using their clout to compete unfairly in nonutility businesses, and that Michigan Consolidated had little if any competition in building low-cost...