Word: capris
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...considerable leading. Thus, in East Germany last week, when a circus tiger mauled its trainer, Potsdam's Märkische Volksstimme (circ. 240,000) saw a fine opportunity. Said Volksstimme (Voice of the People): "The tiger's attack was one of the many interesting episodes of Franchesco Capri's eventful circus life ... In November his wife Ruth will present six young lions she brought from Hungary in a new act, 'Animal Nursery.' But before she can do this she has to work hard training them for many months. This work can only be successful...
...Chicago, big-volume Stallworth Motor Co. came right to the point with prospects, offered a $2,495 fully equipped Customline V-8 Ford for a flat $2,000. Another dealer offered the $4,937 Lincoln Capri at an $800 discount. In Dallas, Los Angeles, Cleveland and Seattle, Plymouths were going at up to $200 off list, Pontiacs up to $500 off, DeSotos up to $700 off. Exceptions in the price war are Ford's Thunderbird. the big Chryslers, the new torsion-bar Packards (just going into production), and Cadillac...
...last few years, when the United States suddenly discovered that the non-white two-thirds of the world was moving, students, too, began to shift their sights from the Folies and the Isle of Capri to the area from Japan to the Gold Coast. To meet this new interest in emergent nations, many undergraduate student projects have grown up--all vaguely concerned with "an exchange of ideas" and "international understanding...
...hearing, glamorous Socialite Joanne Connelly Sweeny Patiño, 23, told a sympathetic judge that her husband, Bolivian Tin Heir Jaime Ortiz-Patiño, was "a real sadist, who often beat me." Matter of fact, complained Joanne without further explanation, things really got rough on the Isle of Capri: "On our honeymoon he beat me so much I had a miscarriage...
...great majority of the foreign colonists-retired businessmen, artists and writers, well-heeled or well-married expatriates-are thoroughly respectable, thoroughly discreet, or sometimes both. But gossip is rampant, and everyone knows that Cuernavaca has a yeasty leavening of the oddities and eccentrics who also find their way to Capri, the CÓte d'Azur and other lotus-eaters' resorts of the world. If tales are sometimes .whispered of gay fiestas involving such narcotics as alcohol, opium and intellectual Communism, of ambisextrous wingdings and nudist bridge-and-bathing parties, who could be surprised? Cuernavaca, in fact...