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...ornate palace he is occupying for a second term (his first: 1939-45), wispy, white-haired President Manuel Prado y Ugarteche, 69, told TIME Correspondent George de Carvalho in elegant French: "Be tranquil, mon cher. There will be no collapse." Quite possibly he was right. In a strange alliance, this dandified scion of the rich class that Peru calls "the oligarchs" has teamed up with Ramiro Prialé, 55, the revolutionary who bosses Latin America's greatest mass political movement, the Apra, to put Peruvian democracy on a working, paying basis...
Even in yielding last week, the un-slumbering caretaker of the reconstituted Zion breathed defiance and, with his Old Testament as ever to hand, proclaimed that Israel would fight on more fiercely than before. "I believe in our future," he said in an interview with TIME Correspondent George de Carvalho. "Absolutely. I know we can survive and flourish. We must survive, and we will survive. We have a history of 4,000 years. We were driven out and dispersed about the world for 2,000 years, often hated and persecuted. Our people were tortured and burned at the stake...
Actually Miss Callas gave far more than she received, though it took some striving. Her first dinner meeting with De Carvalho in Milan went smoothly enough. "Ask me anything," she said. Long after midnight the questions were still coming, the soprano was still going, and her husband was muttering to George: "Never heard her talk like this to anyone before." But after another searching session at lunch the following day, Miss Callas cried enough...
That evening, after the dispatch of a dozen roses and a note ("American Beauties for an American beauty"), the talks were cordially resumed, and for two weeks flowers and interviews followed in nightly succession at the Callas home, restaurants, cafes and at recording sessions. Interspersed were interviews by De Carvalho and other TIME reporters in Italy and elsewhere with the singer's maids, masseuse, fitter, designer, critics, conductors, fellow singers, friends, foes and the chief of La Scala's claque. De Carvalho and his colleagues scoured Italy for leads. He flew 1,300 miles to Ankara to talk...
...when all the returns were in, Pulitzer Prizewinner De Carvalho (he won it in 1952, when he was on the staff of the San Francisco Chronicle) found he still had some gaps in his story. Wrung out, Miss Callas balked at yet another interview, but finally consented if De Carvalho would courier her poodle puppy Toy from Rome to Milan, which...