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...orchestra, under Fausto Cleva, played well; everything, from harp glissandos to threatening bass growls, was audible. Even the claque sounded good from the back of the house. (The choreography for the "Dance of the Hours" was not quite up to Folies-Bergere standards, but who had come to see pirouettes...
Shepard has stocked a good selection of French and Italian rock and roll artists, such as Francoise Hardy, Sylvie Vartan, and Fausto Papetti, in addition to current American favorites. As at all good discotheques, guests may make their own requests. If he does not have the record, Shepard will try to get it, no matter what country it might come from...
...officer who triggered the revolt on April 24. Caamaño's political background is murky. He is quarrelsome, opportunistic, a plotter who, in the words of one U.S. official, "has the potential of becoming another Fidel Castro." His father, Lieut. General Fausto Caamaño, was boss of Trujillo's secret police, took a leading part in the 1937 slaughter of 15,000 Haitian squatters. Young Caamaño joined the navy in 1950, proved so contentious that he was bucked to the marines, next to the police, finally to the army. He helped...
Violence was a favorite topic. Denying that comics corrupt the young, Professor Fausto Bongioanni declared: "The comics prepare a child for life. Let us accept the facts; life is not sweet." "I have found a moral decline in Walt Disney's comics," announced Professor Giovanni Bertin. "The positive character Mickey Mouse has been replaced by the negative Donald Duck. The emergence of an evil Donald Duck is a bad omen for American mores...
Going to School. The U.S. bishops' school for reporters is evidence of mild ecclesiastical protest against the secrecy that is supposed to cloak the conference. The council did set up a press office of sorts. But Msgr. Fausto Vaillanc, a Vatican clerk impressed as chief press officer, confines himself to distributing the official one-page bulletins in seven languages. To the 300-odd newsmen still in Rome, the handouts are often worse than useless. Designed to report on each day's council conference after its close, the bulletins are sometimes written 24 hours in advance, and they...