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Sobs at the Palace. As Castro's tirade roared on, now comprehensible, now incoherent, Urrutia watched a television set in his wife's sitting room at the palace. His face was ashen, and his right cheek twitched nervously as Castro's high-pitched voice filled the room. At one point, a female secretary yelled toward the TV screen: "That's a lie!" The President's wife retreated, red-eyed, to her bedroom. Finally, Urrutia rose, went into a small office, wrote out his resignation, sent it to the television studio, turned his head...
...another seizure," said the ashen-faced concertmaster. "The maestro can't go on. Perhaps if you took a moment to look at the score . . ." The world's greatest undiscovered conductor rose from his seat on the aisle. "A score won't be necessary," said Walter Mitty quietly. "Where is the baton...
...Hollywood to help, with the movie version of her bestsellingVeport on sex in the white-collar jungle, The Best of Everything (TIME, Sept. 15), 26-year-old Author Rona Jaffe mused about the ashen taste of success. "You dream all your life of being famous," she told New York Herald Tribune Reporter Joe Hyams, "because you think it will solve all your problems. What happens is you meet a lot of fascinating men, as you hoped you would, but just as many of them are married as the dull men you knew when you were obscure...
...looked at the Vagabond's ashen face. There were tears in his eyes. He cleared his throat, blew his nose, and went on. "After that they came thick and fast. Sometimes the phone rang before I had relinquished my grip on the newly-cradled receiver. Marrowitz, Marrowitz, Marrowitz, roared in a tumultuous crescendo inside my skull. Finally I fled into the unknown morning, vaguely seeking surceace in Sever Hall with Uzbek Studies 229. It was ghastly--so ghastly I cannot talk about it. The obscene rites that there transpired, as registered on my fear-crazed brain by my blear-hazed...
Answering a dusty question, Adlai Stevenson told reporters in Paris, "I shall not seek the nomination," then followed up the old response with a parable. Holocaust had obliterated life on earth, Adlai recounted, leaving one shook-up gorilla. Wandering hungrily on the ashen plains, the ape at length came upon a cave. In the cave was a beautiful lady gorilla, who purred: "We are the only two living beings on earth." "Lady," said the tired male, "have you got anything to eat?" From deep in the cave the lady gorilla brought forth a large, red apple. "Oh, lord," moaned...