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...Callas last week. Though critics have been telling the volatile prima donna something like that for years, the Callas star quality still blazes in Japan where she and Tenor Giuseppe di Stefano have drawn sellout audiences and 40-minute curtain calls during their concert tour. Pausing in her $330-a-day Tokyo hotel suite, where the air-conditioning ducts were sealed to protect the famous Callas cords, the star spoke of her on-again, off-again career. "At a certain point in my life I had wanted to dominate my voice," she explained. "It was not enough that I should...
...those detained was Haji Mastaan, 45, a former Bombay coolie who over the past 20 years has parlayed his 390-a-day wages into a $13 million empire and a reputation as the king of Indian smugglers. Mastaan likes to wear Western-style clothes topped with a white silk turban, gives generously to both Moslem mosques and Hindu temples, and by his own account has bought politicians of every party and persuasion. Though arrested several times before, until now he has beaten every rap that was ever brought against him, including a murder charge...
...southeast of Los Angeles. Shortly after her mother died, she was nurse again to her father, who had contracted silicosis as a copper miner. On her own at 17, just as the Depression was beginning, she took on a series of jobs- everything from telephone-switchboard operator to $7-a-day movie extra - to put herself through the University of Southern California...
...High Rollers: Florida's 700-room Boca Raton Hotel and Club, where $400-a-day suites are available for the "grand gesture...
...they would need to meet "normal" domestic demand of close to 20 million bbl. That lack will contribute to keeping supplies tight for years after the Arab embargo ends. Now Exxon, which accounts for about 10% of the nation's refinery runs, is almost doubling the 300,000 bbl.-a-day capacity of its refinery at Baytown, Texas, and adding 100,000 daily bbl. to the capacities of other U.S. refineries...