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There was a full Cabinet meeting last week in Argentina. That would not be unusual in most countries, but it set a precedent for President Arturo Illia, a onetime country doctor, who has always received his ministers separately or in groups of two or three. Only once before in his 21 years in office had he called in the entire Cabinet, and that was to pay formal tribute to John F. Kennedy after his assassination. So what was the occasion last week...
SPORTSMAN'S HOLIDAY (NBC, 5:30-6 p.m.). Voyages to happy hunting and fishing grounds with tips on how to come home with the big ones. This trip is to Alaska and Argentina for big game and trout, and to reservoirs in Massachusetts and New Hampshire for fresh-water bass. Premiere...
...that will function as a sort of cabinet, supplement the 60-man privy council that already advises him, and seek to unify the monarchists. The head of the new secretariat is José Maria de Areilza, the Count of Motrico, who has acted as Franco's ambassador to Argentina, France and the U.S. To improve "domestic relations"-meaning contacts with the Franco government-Don Juan chose Florentine Pérez Embid, a prominent Madrid University historian and member of the influential Opus Dei movement. Though the new secretariat would resign if Don Juan assumes the monarchy, in the meantime...
...stickers are turning up in all sizes and colors: WATCHING TV MAKES YOU STERILE, APPLE PIE IS FLUORIDATED, GOD IS ALIVE AND HIDING IN ARGENTINA, CONSERVE WATER-SHOWER WITH A FRIEND. In Los Angeles, Adman Emil Reisman has started national distribution of his stickers, including USE EROGENOUS ZONE NUMBERS and HIRE THE MORALLY HANDICAPPED. "The Sticker thing," muses Reisman, "is sort of related to drawing beards on ad ladies in subways," which just about says...
...shipowner was security enough for Onassis the airline owner. Still another crisis arose from a Civil Aeronautics Board rule that foreign lines serving the U.S. must be clearly owned by nationals of the same country. Onassis holds both Greek and Argentine citizenship (which he picked up while living in Argentina in the '20s), so he deftly transferred a majority of Olympic stock to a sister, installed relatives as the line's top officers...