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Even the Kennedy Administration was beginning to feel a bit bullish, and Treasury Secretary Douglas Dillon expressed the official optimism. Said he in a Washington speech to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce: "Our prospects for the year are relatively better than most observers had expected. If the improvement continues, our estimated revenues may well be more than we estimated in January-perhaps by as much as a billion dollars...
Italian Designer Emilio Pucci, 48, used to push pink, but that was before he went into politics. Visiting Manhattan, the originator of those skintight Capri pants had to hurry right home for last-minute speechmaking as a Liberal Party candidate for the Chamber of Deputies. "I am running, but I am not interested in the office," he said. "I just don't want people to vote Communist." Win or lose, Pucci was doing his bit for capitalism. His high-fashion models handed out bright silk scarves with the Pucci signature and the slogan "Vote Liberal"-and Florentines were peddling...
...restore full circulation to the brain when there is critical narrowing in an accessible artery in the neck. His colleague, Dr. Cooley, did the first operation to remove an aneurysm (a thin, ballooned-out section) from the left ventricle, the heart's main pumping chamber. He tried putting a patient on the heart-lung machine two years ago while he removed a "pulmonary embolism," a usually fatal blood clot in the pulmonary artery. Now. with three successes logged, Cooley believes the procedure should be made generally available, with disposable oxygen kits ready in all major hospitals...
...physical coward who runs at the first hint of a fight, but later, safe in his bedroom, rips out his rapier and slaughters imaginary myriads. He is so poor he seldom eats more than twice a week-in one hilarious frame the camera wistfully observes that his chamber pot is filled with cobwebs. But he is proud. Whenever he leaves the house, he picks his teeth and smacks his lips, as though he had just finished a hearty meal. And one day he announces grandly: "In Old Castile I own a pigeon cote which if it were not in ruins...
Robert D. Swezey, Jr. '62-3, the producer, described the work as a "chamber opera" with five singing roles and ten solo instruments in the orchestra. Cole's libretto represents a fusion of historical material on two fourth century saints, one of whom was a harlot before she was converted...