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...headlong performance by the 44-year-old politico, who took office seven months ago with the biggest popular majority in Brazilian history. It came after a week of feuding and fussing, touched off-not surprisingly-by the warmth of Quadros' welcome for Cuba's homeward-bound economic czar, Che Guevara. The Cuban did not arrive on schedule. Row on row of officials were left waiting at the Brasilia airport. When Che finally arrived without warning the next day, only a few mechanics were on hand. Quadros later put on his best blue serge to greet him, and give...
With the broad outline, the delegates found little to bicker about. The loudest bickering came from Cuba's scraggle-bearded economic czar. Che Guevara. Che, author of one of the basic Communist treatises on guerrilla warfare, proved himself a troublesome parliamentary guerrilla. He began by objecting to "almost all the affirmations'' made in the opening round of speeches, once stormed in a blind rage out of the conference hall-and into the ladies' rest room. (Said a Guatemalan delegate: "If there were not a halo of blood surrounding this flabby Cantinflas. he would actually be amusing...
...19th century, 400-cell fortress-penitentiary maintained at an annual cost of more than $67,500 to keep just three inmates. The others: former Hitler Youth Leader Baldur von Schirach, former Nazi Production Czar Albert Speer...
Died. Ex-Queen Marie of Yugoslavia, 61, auto-fancying, welfare-working daughter of Rumania's Queen Marie, great-granddaughter of both Britain's Queen Victoria and Russia's Czar Alexander II, and Yugoslavian monarch from her 1922 marriage to strongman King Alexander I until his 1934 assassination; following a long illness; in London, where she had lived for 20 years, the last 15 in Tito-imposed exile...
Fish-eyed Frankie Carbo, 56, boxing's undercover czar, took one on the chin in Los Angeles last week. A federal jury convicted the Murder, Inc. graduate of extortion, conspiring to grab a piece of ex-Welterweight Champion Don Jordan's purses and threatening his manager and a promoter. Carbo, who has served time for manslaughter and illegal matchmaking but beaten five murder raps, faces up to 85 years in prison and $50,000 in fines. Also convicted were his chief errand boy. Frank ("Blinky") Palermo; Lawyer Truman Gibson Jr., once president of the now defunct International Boxing...