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...much domestic bliss would be hard on any man. For Sergio Masini, first violinist in a Roman symphony orchestra, it is literally a labor of love: he adores all three of his families and is scrupulously fair to each. Giulia (Renee Longarini) is his legal wife; Adela (Maria Grazia Carmassi), a onetime opera singer, became his mistress when he began to console her for her cracking voice; and Marisa (Stefania Sandrelli) is a young country girl who fell in love with him at a concert and followed him to Rome. Each of them gets nine phone calls a day from...
...consumes in triplicate or the multiple birthdays, anniversaries and holidays that must all be observed. New Year's Eve, for instance, he celebrates an hour ahead of time with Giulia and children (explaining that he has an orchestra engagement to keep); then follows a tender phone call to Adela and children, then a nightclub date with Marisa. His best friend's child has to be baptized twice so that both Giulia and Adela can be godmothers...
When he isn't talking, Javits is thinking. He is one of the most prolific idea men in politics, with a range of interests and enthusiasms that would defy an indexer. He has sponsored a thriving private-enterprise plan for Latin American development (ADELA) and is trying to launch similar ventures for Greece and Turkey. He is chairman of the NATO Parliamentarian's Economic Committee and an oft-heard advocate of greater political and economic cooperation within the Alliance. He speaks regularly and perceptively on the problems of Germany and of Viet Nam. On the domestic scene...
TELL NO MAN, by 73-year-old Adela Rogers St. Johns (444 pages; Doubleday; $5.95), is a soap opera of flapping metaphors and dangling syntax that asks: Can an "upstanding, up-and-coming, go-getting, moneymaking, sports-minded, about-town-business-and-Yale man" chuck his $50,000-a-year job and find happiness as a minister? The gospel according to St. Johns is a turgid yes, provided that he preaches a theology based on the teachings of Rebecca West, Billy Graham, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, J. D. Salinger, Jakob Bohme and Damon Runyon. Tell...
...President Belaúnde, Chile's Frei and Argentina's Illia were receptive to his common-market concept, even if he met more hesitancy than hurrahs from many business leaders. Javits has succeeded before in pressing through unlikely schemes for Latin America. It was he who conceived ADELA (the Atlantic Community Development Group for Latin America), an altruistic investment organization whose backers include many of the most prestigious names in European, Japanese and U.S. business. So far, in less than two years of operation, ADELA has committed $22 million to 27 privately owned businesses in 13 Latin American...