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...tripped prettily off Viasa Flight 737 with her fiancé, and was walking toward immigration at the Caracas terminal when sharp-eyed Venezuelan plainclothesmen decided she was too round to be real. When they searched Josefa Ventosa Jiménez, 22, they found that the fetching passenger from Rome was wearing a specially made girdle stuffed with 1,200 crisp $100 bills. Her companion, Alessandro Beltramini, 53, a Milan physician and longtime Communist, was also well padded: his vest yielded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Communists: The New Strategy | 4/23/1965 | See Source »

Three Widows. To all appearances, their appetites are unlimited. In a short story, Bank Clerk Malay Roychowdhury, 25, tells of a starving poet who first devours his fiancée, then his poetry notebook, then a building and Calcutta's huge Howrah Bridge. A poem by Schoolteacher Ghose crows that "I impregnated three widows at a time, and now I am lying in bed happy. What next...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: India: The Hungry Generation | 11/20/1964 | See Source »

Sandra plays the granddaughter of a dying plutocrat (Chevalier) who insists on seeing her fiancé before he "joins the Big Board up yonder." Since her fiance (Williams) is fogbound in Boston, Sandra seizes the first presentable passerby (Goulet) and tells her grandfather that this is the man she loves. Turns out he is, too, but it takes Sandra 95 minutes to find out she wasn't lying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Smight Makes Right | 9/11/1964 | See Source »

...Lady Bird's, says, "Bird wasn't accepted into our clique. There were 18 of us girls, and we couldn't get Claudia to cooperate on anything. She didn't date at all. To get her to go to the high school graduation banquet, my fiancé took Bird as his date and I went with another boy. She didn't like to be called Lady Bird, so we'd call her Bird to get her little temper going. My mother would call her Cat. She'd say, 'All right, pull your...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The White House: The First Lady Bird | 8/28/1964 | See Source »

...have taken to heart the Baltimore cops' advice to run when attacked [June 26] and am now vigorously practicing wind sprints. However, one difficulty has arisen: my fiancée, who is addicted to wearing high heels, is hard pressed to comprehend that when trouble appears I shall be forced to abandon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jul. 10, 1964 | 7/10/1964 | See Source »

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