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...phony and Connery is not. Bond flashes his acquired taste for champagne, but Connery just orders beer. Connery goes around Hollywood in new Levi's and sweatshirts. Just before the recent arrival of his wife (Actress Diane Cilento) and their two children, he moved into a $1,000-a-month Bel Air house carrying nothing but a small suitcase and a carton of groceries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Actors: Canny Scot | 1/10/1964 | See Source »

Torjus "Gunnysack" Johnson, 66, was not so sure he wanted electricity. Gunnysack and his wife, Mamie, subsist on social security money, and they did not know if they could afford the $10-a-month minimum charge for electricity. Besides, says Mamie Johnson, 79, "I'd rather have spent the money for a game license. I do some fishing, but I'd like to get me a deer this fall, and a bear. I'd sure like to get the juice from a fat bear. Makes a fine oil for salad." Nevertheless, the Johnsons have signed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Montana: The Lights Go On In the Yaak River Valley | 10/18/1963 | See Source »

...Breakfast. She is 22 now and her contract at M-G-M runs until 1966. She has a $150,000 house in Erlangen, a modest villa in the south of Spain, a tax-haven flat in Switzerland, and a $900-a-month rented house in Beverly Hills. "Until my mommy came, for one whole month I lived alone in this house and I had a mouse here," she says. "I fed it every night. At least I had something moving around...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Faces: Packaged Tomato | 7/12/1963 | See Source »

...Miro wrote out a highly emotional, 25-page statement of grievances. Instead of making it public, he sent it to the State Department and awaited the reaction-which was brutally swift in coming. State issued a statement accusing Miro of "gross distortions," threatened to cut off the $100,000-a-month subsidy it has been slipping the Revolutionary Council through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign Relations: That Month | 4/26/1963 | See Source »

...problem by far is the economy. This year, he said, will be one "of austerity, of convalescence." To show that he means business, he pushed through a skin-and-bones budget of $564 million, giving some ministries one-tenth of what they had demanded. He also put a $400-a-month ceiling on all government salaries-his own included-and slapped a 100% tax on income above $800 a month. To the ascetic Ben Bella, who lives in a dingy, three-room bachelor flat with a nephew who does all the cooking and cleaning, that seems perfectly reasonable. For those...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Algeria: The High Cost of Independence | 2/1/1963 | See Source »

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