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Robertson. Dina herself was delighted. "I enjoyed the Palm Beach audience," she said. "I found them quite warm."
For a moment, it looked as if one of the biggest estates in history would soon be under probate. While stalking lions on Kenya's northern frontier, Stavros Niarchos, 57, spotted a handsome pair of males and dropped one of them. The other bolted for the bush, then wheeled and sprang as the Greek shipping magnate was inspecting his kill. The lion was in mid-air when Stavros and his white hunter snap-fired simultaneously for the kill. "Close. Very close, that one," muttered Niarchos. Then he strolled back to camp to dictate some business letters.
Red Chinese students of decadent Western literature get pretty standard Marx. At Shanghai's Fu Tan University, reported a group of visiting Australians, Western tomes are catalogued with some oddly class-conscious critiques. Charles Dickens, for example, "was the last great writer who was able to gather, in a single effective image, both the emerging proletariat and the radical bourgeoisie." As for Cervantes: "In Don Quixote, he tolled the death knell of feudalism and peasant exploitation." Not a word about poor, downtrodden Sancho Panza.
"Aaow, oi think it's so styew-pid!" complained Lesley Hornby, 17, more aptly known as Twiggy, the cockney ghost of a sylph who has become one of England's top models. She was all set to become tops in the American colonies too, but the London passport office allowed that as a minor, Twiggy may not go abroad to work. Invoking child-labor laws, an official said that the defenseless little girl, whose Twiggy Enterprises, Ltd., planned to unload about $1,000,000 worth of clothes in department stores across the U.S., might be exploited by mean foreigners.