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India's Minister of Food Chidambaram Subramaniam flew into Washington last week on an urgent mission that may mean life or death for thousands of his countrymen. He came to appeal for tons more of U.S. food to help India stave off what threatens to be its worst food crisis in two decades. With Subramaniam came assurances from Prime Minister Lai Bahadur Shastri that India, after years of giving top priority to industrialization, will put more emphasis on agriculture in the new five-year plan that begins in April, and will spend $11 billion for fertilizer, farm machinery, irrigation...
Winners: the Extremists. In Santo Domingo, rumors flew that the entire rebel leadership had been ambushed and massacred. Pro-rebel mobs took to the streets, slinging rocks, throwing up street barricades, and setting cars and trucks ablaze. On his return to the capital, Caamaño called for calm "so that no one may justify acts of aggression." Sporadic violence continued throughout the week...
...World War I fighter pilot and a mother who had been a wing walker in a flying circus, Schirra took to the air naturally. An Annapolis graduate who flew 90 combat missions in Korea, he is a fast mover on the earth, too, in a maroon Maserati...
Sound of Snow. When the shooting in Madrid finally ended last Oct. 9, Sharif reports, "The cast wept." Even Lean, readying the last scene, said, "I don't want it to end." In fact, for Lean it was really only beginning. Back he flew to Hollywood with 31 hours' worth of color footage to be cut down to the final 3 hrs. 17 mins. To Lean, who made his reputation in the mid-'30s as a film editor, cutting is the ultimate art and his all-engrossing love. He moved into the stucco cottage on Metro...
Once it had, Niarchos swung into action, and with characteristic style. Charlotte and Niarchos' lawyer flew from New York to Juarez on a Ford company plane. Niarchos himself flew from Canada on another. The wedding party was installed in a spanking new Juarez motel, and a judge came to marry the happy couple in their motel suite. Another Ford plane took them to Nassau in the Bahamas. Waiting there was a Boeing 707 that Niarchos had chartered from BOAC to take them to Zurich (price: roughly $40,000). From there, they boarded his own Lear jet for the last...