Friday, Mar. 26, 1965
She will finish Radcliffe in only three years, has written and produced a play called A Slap in the Faith at Harvard's Loeb Theater ("five acts of doggerel"), is planning to write for the movies and simultaneously "looking forward to being a wife and mother" when she marries a Harvard grad this June. But right now, says Banker David's daughter Neva Goodwin Rockefeller, 20, want to enjoy some of the things that go with the name before I stop being a Rockefeller." So for "a lark," she's accepted an invitation to be Queen of the Shenandoah Apple Blossom Festival in Winchester, Va., next month.
And a name does seem to help down along the Shenandoah--last year's queen was Luci Baines Johnson.
French Existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre, 59, felt alone. According to a Gallup poll, 67% of the U.S. population supports the air strikes on North Viet Nam. Sartre is 100% against them. "When contradictory opinions have hardened, dialogue is no longer possible," he announced in Paris, canceling a three-week U.S. tour during which he was scheduled to lecture on "Ethics and History" at Cornell and at Manhattan's Y.M.H.A. Professor Jean-Jacques Demorest, Sartre's stood-up host at Cornell, was regretful but philosophical. "Sartre," said he, "is drawing more and more into abstract idealism. What he wants is not a dialogue, but a monologue that suits his own beliefs."
Though the cars of Enzo Ferrari, 67, aren't running off with all the money on the world's racing circuits this year, there is one 3000 coupe that is worth its weight in lira back home. For years Rome's Questura security cops found themselves choking on crooks' exhaust fumes in their put-putting Fiats. But now, basta, banditti! In its own garage on the Via Nazionale sits a shiny black Ferrari with bulletproof windshield, a radio always tuned to headquarters, and enough notches in its tailpipe to frighten the Mafia. Last week it roared out to overhaul a crook in a Jaguar fleeing Rome with $160,000 worth of paintings. Last month it ran Luciano D'Antoni, "king of the jailbreak," into a ditch and back to jail. Ace Police Driver Armando Spatafora has a chestful of medals for his daring sprints in the name of law, order and Ferrari.
You have to hand it to Pierre Salinger, 39--he's a quick study. During last fall's senatorial campaign in California, Pierre had some scathing things to say about actors like George Murphy being unqualified for politics. Ex-Senator Pierre has thought it over and, well, the movie is called Do Not Disturb, and he plays an American consul in Paris, and Doris Day is calling him from an antique shop where she's trapped. Pierre gets to say funny lines like "Influence!
If I had any, I wouldn't be here." The scene takes only 47 seconds, but then Murphy had to start at the bottom too.
The maroon Rolls-Royce purred through the rainy evening to the London Clinic, and out stepped Britain's Queen Elizabeth, 38. She had come to end a 28-year estrangement between the royal family and the owner of a grey Rolls parked opposite: the Duchess of Windsor, 68. In a fourth-floor sitting room, the two women, both dressed in properly cheerful red, met by the chair of Edward, Duke of Windsor, 70, sitting up for the first time in three weeks after a series of eye operations. What was said in 25 minutes--at the first meeting since Edward abdicated his throne to marry the Manhattan divorcee--was "very private but very pleasant indeed." The Queen drove away laughing and talking gaily to an aide.
Dwight Eisenhower was "not fitted for the job" of President, Winston Churchill was "long-winded," Joseph Stalin an "old bastard," and Douglas MacArthur "so important in his own mind he thought he was greater than the President of the United States." This is a TV commentator? Sure is. Harry Truman, 80, talking in his taped weekly TV series, Decision: The Conflicts of Harry S. Truman. That sort of thing so impressed the American Cinema Editors that they awarded him an "Eddie" as "the most outstanding television personality of 1964."
A grand old birdman won a handsome new set of wings last week. Pan American World Airways announced that Charles A. Lindbergh, 63, has been elected to sit on its board of directors after 36 years as a technical consultant. The lanky Lone Eagle went to work for Pan Am just two years after he soloed from New York to Paris, and in the years since, he has evaluated every Pan
Am plane from the lumbering Clipper seaplanes to the 1,500-m.p.h. Concorde with which the airline hopes to fly the Atlantic in 21 hours in 1970. Shy and painfully retiring as always, Lindy was nowhere to be found by the newsmen who wanted to talk to him, and the latest picture anyone could find was one taken in 1959.
Some of the guests at the London literary luncheon amused themselves by calculating that Oil Billionaires J. Paul Getty, 72, and Nubar Gulbenkian, 68, grew about $20,000 richer in the hour they sat absorbing asparagus souffle, boiled salmon and a monologue from their table partner, Actress Hermione Gingold. The party was to launch Gulbenkian's biography, Pantaraxia (loose translation from the Greek: keeping people on their toes), which tells how he enlarged the fortune accumulated in Middle Eastern oil by his late father Calouste ("Mr. Five Per Cent") Gulbenkian. When the two finally got off nose to nose in a corner, did they discuss Pantaraxia or Getty's My Life and Fortunes? "Lubrication," said Gulbenkian. "What else is there to talk about?" $21,000, $22,000 . . .
That first famous hike was 50 miles, and this one will be only 2.6 miles--but practically straight up. Senator Robert F. Kennedy, 39, is taking off this week for the Yukon, where he will join in the assault on 13,900-ft. Mt. Kennedy, an icy spire named after the late President by the Canadian government and the highest unclimbed mountain in North America. The temperature is likely to be in the neighborhood of 30DEG below zero, and Bobby's previous mountaineering is confined to the sand dunes at Hyannis Port. But Jim Whittaker, 35, member of the National Geographic Society expedition and the first American to climb Mt. Everest, thinks the Senator will make it. In fact, says he, eying the political pitons, "I would step aside and let Senator Kennedy lead us on to the top."
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