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Richard Burton has long insisted that he would rather be a writer than an actor. Last summer, Condé Nast's Glamour magazine sent him a timid feeler asking if he might like to write a story for the Christmas issue. The idea appealed to Burton's repressed ambition, and he set to work in longhand. The result, which will next month become his first published short story, is anything but an embarrassment. It is worth every farthing he was paid for it. "He gets $500," says Glamour's Feature Editor Marilyn Mercer, "which is a very...
...finally captured Hugo Blanco, 29, a home-grown Communist who vowed to ignite a Castroite revolt among peasants in the Andes. Said Blanco: "They have taken me and a few others, but many are still at large. They will continue the Peruvian revolution." Though the U.S. swiftly rejected the feeler, it did take one small step in that direction when the State Department announced last week it would allow commercial U.S. airliners to resume routes over Cuban territory for the first time in seven months...
...different campuses. The nuances are endless. When a dean in sunny Texas asks on the phone, "Is it still sleeting in Chicago?", he may be implying a full-scale job offer. Or he may not; a major gaucherie, of course, is for a professor to react to a feeler that wasn't there...
Died. Rear Admiral Ellis Mark Zacharias, 71, brash, bristly intelligence and psychological warfare expert, a self-styled World War II Cassandra who claimed to have predicted Pearl Harbor nine months in advance, and to have ferreted out a Japanese surrender feeler 13 days before Hiroshima, yet never convinced the Navy's topside of either story; of a heart attack; in West Springfield...
...suite, scuttles out of the center of a ring of bodyguards only to eat. Trujillo's mouthpiece newspaper, El Caribe, outrightly told Batista to "get out," but he has nowhere to go. France last week turned down his bid for asylum, and he got no answer to a feeler...