Word: fasts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hardheaded Italian moxie. So naturally Producer Stanley Kramer picked an Irishman, born in Mexico, who hails from Hollywood: Anthony Quinn, 52, who has been studiously preparing for his role as the rascally wine merchant by tippling Cinzano at his villa south of Rome and working it off with a fast set or two of tennis...
Reflecting an understandable fear of Japanese economic domination, the Philippine Senate has dragged its feet on ratification of a proposed commercial treaty with Japan for more than six years. Yet even without a pact, business ties between the two countries have grown so fast that Japan now accounts for 42% of the Philippines' total foreign trade. That trade particularly rankles Manila's mayor, Antonio Villegas, 40, who has shown his displeasure by noisily trying to expel from his city 17 major Japanese firms...
...with an unpronounceable name-and he laid some fan at ringside 5½ to 7½ that unpronounceable would take a dive. Willie collected when a fan ran out, pulled the bull's tail, and the beast just stood there looking silly. Miguelin polished the bull off as fast as he could and headed for the exit, ducking shrapnel from the stands...
...this time Willie was fast becoming a real aficionado, which is what they call the smart money in Spain. He bought a new book called Or I'll Dress You in Mourning, a biography of El Cordobés, by Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre, who also wrote Is Paris Burning? (a proposition on which Willie would lay even money at the moment). At night, while Myra was washing her hair, Willie read about how El Cordobes, born Manuel Benitez, now 32, got to be champ-fighting 133 bulls in a single summer, a lot of them bums that...
Getting Serious. The U.S., of course, has its own chronic payments problem, and it has long been painfully obvious that the Johnson Administration's proposed 10% tax surcharge was the best way to combat it. Fast approaching adjournment for the summer, Congress is likely to pass the surcharge within the next two weeks-17 months after the President first urgently proposed it. The tax should show the rest of the world that the U.S. really is serious about cleaning up its financial household. And that in itself should increase confidence in the dollar...