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...defected to the West. He eventually settled with his émigré mother in Yucaipa, Calif., (pop. 26,000) and died of lung cancer not long after. Vlasta plunged into a lonely, uphill custody battle for her son and daughter. The case is still pending in a San Bernardino courtroom, and could easily snowball into a major East-West propaganda confrontation. Whatever the outcome, it has already become something of a diplomatic cause...
...chapters on Vatican finances depict a much shrewder investment operation than that in the American branch office. In 1929 Mussolini paid the Vatican, which was then virtually broke, $92 million in return for Italy's previous takeover of the Papal States. By 1968, Vatican-employed businessmen, chiefly Bernardino Nogara, a Jewish banker, had parlayed this into a $300 million stake in the Italian economy-plus another $200 million worth of investments in other nations...
...just beginning to study the problem thoroughly, many believe that bathers are harmed only if they swallow the organisms. An English physician has argued that a swimmer, short of actually swallowing fecal matter, runs almost no risk of infection. Says Dr. Siegried Centerwall, head of California's San Bernardino County health department: "When officials say water is unsafe for swimming, they really mean it is unsafe for drinking...
...sits alone in his little office, a mass of naked wrinkles, glum, dispirited, forlorn. Forlorn because just outside Mel's screen door, his own twelve-acre nudist club-the Oakdale Guest Ranch-is going silently to seed in the dry heat of the San Bernardino Mountains. In fact, the club's membership in two years has plummeted from 300 to 60 couples, and it continues to plummet as the elderly members die off. Another nudist camp near by recently closed up for good...
...nudism. "We were the talk of Long Beach for a long time," recalls Ann (equally nude), her eyes gleaming with a certain mischievous pride. After four years Hocker quit his job as a cost analyst with the Ford Motor Co., bought Oakdale, an established nudist club just outside San Bernardino, and made nudism a full-time way of life. "You can't beat it," says Hocker. "It's so - natural. It just seems right not to wear clothes. You can't upstage anybody around here with a mink coat or a good suit. Haha. And then there...