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...sensitive little girl playing Helen Keller at age seven in Broadway's The Miracle Worker. Actually, it's only been six years, but the girl now has a large movie contract and a television show of her own. Patty just kept telling everybody about "the crush I had on him two years ago. But it was just kid stuff then...
What Castello Branco is reportedly trying to do is to find a candidate, conceivably from the opposition Social Democratic Party, who could run on a Social Democratic-National Democratic Union ticket and create a great centrist force that could crush Lacerda or any similar candidate on the right, and whomever is put up by the radical left. Whether Castello Branco can achieve this or not is open to question...
...Abeyance. The U.S. obviously has the power to crush Castro's military machine any time it chooses. But that would risk a confrontation with the Kremlin, and for the time being the U.S. would rather see the Russians focusing their hostility on Red China. "This extreme approach is in abeyance, in the absence of a major provocation by Castro," says a U.S. expert. Neither, despite occasional Cuban feelers, will the U.S. consider negotiating a live-and-let-live deal with Castro so long as he remains totally committed to the Soviet bloc and continues his subversion around Latin America...
Quintet Groups. Led by Said Ramadan, an exiled and devout Egyptian editor (he kneels for his daily prayers even when aboard an airliner), the brotherhood has been trying to over throw Cairo governments since the early days of King Farouk. Nasser tried to crush it out after one of its members fired eight shots at him during a mass rally in Alexandria in 1954, but despite the execution of six of the brothers and the imprisonment of thousands of others, the organization survived. Establishing headquarters in Geneva, it was soon distributing an anti-Nasser magazine throughout the Arab world, smuggling...
...appreciated for its true, priceless worth. This is one of the noblest classic ballet companies of all time . . . The range of Balanchine is fantastic." He is the "unending, unflagging Mozart among choreographers." When the reviews appeared, the tickets were snapped up in a box-office crush that has meant S.R.O. audiences ever since...