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...Orly Field outside Paris, Brigitte Bardot, 30, and Jeanne Moreau, 37, looked an awful lot like a couple of doting teen-age chums. Vraiment, mes cheresl After 16 weeks together, filming Louis Malle's Viva Maria! in Mexico, les girls hadn't come close to a blowup-even for publicity-and now they seemed downright cozy. "We get along like two pals in the army," murmured Moreau fondly. C'est la guerre...
...underdeveloped economy, unemployed city dwellers, illiterate back-country peasants. Among his strongest allies are Chile's 30,000 card-carrying Communists and their followers. He openly calls himself a Marxist, once termed Castro a "political genius," keeps Fidel's picture on his office wall and a blowup of the anti-Yanqui Declaration of Havana just outside the door...
...reform for Chile's ills: 1) a strict, centrally planned economy; 2) "authentic" land reform, meaning the expropriation of all large farms; and 3) nationalization of the U.S. copper companies. He terms Castro a "political genius," has Fidel's picture on his office wall and a framed blowup of the Declaration of Havana hanging in the hall outside. He openly calls himself a Marxist. "But I am not a Communist," he says, "and that is very important for the U.S. to remember." Nevertheless, Allende has the wholehearted blessings of Chile's 30,000 card-carrying Communists...
...Bowen is reasonably certain that 3C-147 is a galaxy that exploded several billion years ago, giving more light than 100 normal galaxies. Along with its light, its blowup sent out powerful radio waves, probably generated by high-speed electrons moving in a magnetic field...
Sparrow & Peacock. By the judgment of his colleagues, Belli not only erred in his post-trial blowup; he also bungled his courtroom tactics...