Stepehen Schwartz

May, 1973

Heads Have Been Turning more than usual on the French Riviera since Eleanor Hicks became U. S. consul in Nice last July. A slim, attractive black woman just past her 30th birthday, Miss Hicks is anything but the stereotype of the staid Foreign Service officer. She has sung with a rock group, composes songs herself, has written two plays in English and is working on one in French (she patterns her work after Ionesco). ''I lead a very intense life,'' she says. ''I have so many interests, I just ca...