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...austere. During his final year in office, the food-and-drink expenses for parties aboard the two yachts came to $54,260. A sort of triple-threat spender-land, sea and air-Folsom accumulated a gubernatorial squadron of seven airplanes. Sometimes when he was putting on a really big bash, like taking friends to an out-of-state football game, he found his air force inadequate, commandeered Air National Guard planes and pilots. In 1958 he treated himself, his wife, and five of his children, plus a sizeable retinue of retainers, to a visit to the Brussels World...
...Oliver). His woes include a nagging wife, (Simone Signoret), a prison record for conscientious objection to World War Two, and a classroom full of monsters and hoodlums. One pleasant fellow in particular, Mitchell(Terence Stamp), has teacher assaulted by thugs when he feels slighted. Long suffering Weir refuses to "bash the little beggars," as more practical colleagues suggest; his code of sensitivity and non-violence is at length rewarded when two pupils show genuine signs of intellectual curiosity...
Before spry old Busta went off to Montego Bay, where he drank champagne, danced the twist and played the banjo at an all-night post-independence bash, he made it clear that Jamaica will remain in the orbit of the free world. "We are pro-American," he said staunchly. But he ducked questions about possible trade and diplomatic relations with Cuba, only 90 miles to the north. Perhaps he had in mind an old Jamaican proverb: "No cuss alligator' long mout' till you cross riber...
...taxed and kept in its place by the democratic practice of conferring titles on union leaders, newspaper owners and even photographers, has never been highly exclusive, and for the most part amiably accepts the swirling new International Set. And despite death duties, a duke can still manage quite a bash, as witness this week's party in Blenheim Palace...
...jolly good bash" was Soviet Russia's Second International Tchaikovsky Competition, first to be held since 1958, when Louisiana-born Van Cliburn captured the prize-and Russia with it. The "gamble" for gifted young English Pianist John Ogdon, 25, was whether to go into hock and cancel several engagements in order to compete in Moscow. Last week, Ogdon won his gamble, and shared first place with veteran Soviet Pianist Vladimir Ashkenazy...