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...kindly to a new dancer and diffident with a doorman. Yet the presence of this "towering man with a frown," as one company member puts it, can be unpredictably explosive. He does not suffer fools gladly, which explains why there is a small legion known as "Kirstein widows"-people he no longer talks to. Among them: New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller, whose early artistic interests he nurtured but with whom he later had differences...
...Angelo. The real Martha was inimitable herself last week, as always. Irked by the hordes of newsmen frequently hovering outside her Fifth Avenue apartment, Martha emerged twice from the building Tuesday night, and was met both times by Associated Press Reporter Judy Yablonky. The second time she grabbed the doorman's hat and threw it, striking Reporter Yablonky in the face. She then struck the newswoman twice on top of the head and threatened to "thromp the hell" out of the reporter if she set foot on the building doorstep. The encounter ended when the Mitchells' twelve-year...
...unless each paid him 100 zloties ($5). She said that one of the girls got angry and made a telephone call. "Then a lady from the Interior Ministry [which runs the Polish secret police] came over to the hotel and took care of everything," the girl said. "Did the doorman let you in after that?" the judge inquired. "Yes," answered the witness, "for a while...
According to the trial indictment, the doorman and the other eight defendants regularly collected up to 100 zloties from prostitutes as a sort of entrance fee to the hotel's cafe and up to 500 zloties for entry into the hotel itself. For "systematically demanding bribes," the defendants face maximum sentences of 10 years in prison. Meanwhile, life goes on at Warsaw's leading hotels. At the Bristol last week, TIME Correspondent Strobe Talbott reports, he was propositioned three times by phone from the lobby before he had time to unpack in his room...
With a few exceptions, Europe's isolated minorities yearn not so much for independence as for linguistic, cultural and economic equality. In any given office building in Brussels, a Belgian saying goes, the doorman speaks only Dutch, the secretaries are bilingual and the managing director deals only in French. In Italy's Alto Adige region, severed from Austria by diplomatic fiat after World War I, German-speaking Tyrolean terrorists committed some 200 bombings and other acts of violence in the 1960s before Rome agreed to a measure of autonomy. Still, streets are known as both via and strasse...