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When his right hip starts to ache, as it does more and more often these days, Yugoslavian Bossman Josef Broz Tito, 70, likes to dunk his bones in a shallow, sun-warmed, saltwater pool built for him at his villa on the Adriatic island of Brijoni. But come winter, Brijoni's climate is just too cold and cloudy, so the dictator has ordered yet another villa, likely to be equipped with his specially designed pool, to be built 170 miles southeast on the island of Hvar, where the hotelkeepers refund the day's rent if the sun doesn...
When Columnist Drew Pearson interviewed Marshal Tito recently at the island retreat of Brijoni, he was surprised to discover that the dictator's aides were more interested in getting details about the death of Marilyn Monroe than in discussing nuclear testing or Berlin. Last week Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev arrived in Belgrade for a ten-day state visit, and the Yugoslavs again allowed themselves to be distracted from world affairs by a lovely female figure...
...Brijoni islands off the Dalmatian coast, a photographer snapped Yugoslavia's Strong Man Marshal Tito enjoying a holiday, a good cigar and one of his favorite playthings, a new three-dimensional camera...
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