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Acidulous Society Author Cleveland (The Proper Bostonians, The Last Resorts) Amory, 38, scudded into Manhattan after a voyage from England, licking psychic wounds that he picked up in a five-month running battle of wills with the redoubtable Duchess of Windsor. Hostilities loomed the very moment the duchess hired Amory to carry on the ghosting of her autobiography, a meandering treatise on which three years had already been spent. Amory summed...
...family had told him they would get another doctor.) Last week, after lengthy investigation, Venice's criminal court ruled on the case. Dr. Torres was fully exonerated, because he had not been called directly by the family. Dr. Gardin and Dr. Tagliapietra were both found guilty. Penalty: suspended five-month prison sentences, payment of court costs and damages yet to be fixed. The last and best-known of the four, 73-year-old Francesco Strina, won acquittal but only because of lack of sufficient evidence. The verdict in effect admitted that Strina's intervention probably could not have...
...Long Voyage Home. In Cologne, after he had joined the French Foreign Legion to escape arrest, been captured at Dienbienphu, repatriated through Russia and finally returned to Cologne, Ludwig Mende, 33, meekly faced the music, started a five-month stretch for selling two radios for which he had not paid...
First there was the inconsequential Post and Telegraph Ministry budget, on which Mendès impatiently demanded a vote of confidence. He won-but by the narrowest margin of his meteoric, five-month tenure: 321 to 207. Later in the week, on the eve of his take-off for a ten-day visit to Canada and the U.S., Mendès asked the Assembly to postpone debate on the ugly North African situation until his return. Again he won-but by a still narrower margin...
...before Dulles' speech, when his subject was announced, the Kremlin broke a five-month silence with a proposal to resume discussions of the plan. In the U.N. Andrei Vishinsky insisted that the Soviet Union was eager to participate...