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...pass a luxurious summer holiday with a wealthy classmate. Leo is more than a little out of place. He swelters in his woolen Norfolk jacket until his friend's elder sister Marian (Julie Christie) volunteers to take him into town and buy him more suitable clothes. She is fond of the boy, but she is careful to cultivate him too. Soon he is carrying messages to her lover, a Laurentian farmer named Ted Burgess (Alan Bates), and bearing back replies...
...years, Entertainer Rudy Vallee has been fond of a Paris street sign that says "Rue de Vallée." When Los Angeles Mayor Sam Yorty suggested to Vallee that the street to his Hollywood Hills home be rechristened to match the sign, the entertainer proceeded with the rechristening-helped along by a Yorty appointment to the city traffic commission. Two of Rudy's neighbors were not amused, protesting so angrily that the embarrassed public works committee tabled the idea. Determined to carry the matter to the city council, Rudy says: "It will enhance the value of the property along...
...Composer Gian Carlo Menotti launched his Spoleto Festival 14 years ago, Spoletini have enjoyed raking in the profits. Menotti began to worry that they were missing the cultural meaning of it all, so he held a meeting and urged them to "make the whole city a festival." The fiesta-fond Italians took him at his word, celebrating Menotti's 60th birthday with brass bands, torchlight processions and 2,000 signed testimonials of affection. Awakened by a rendition of his own Triple Concerto, the composer sniffled: "Before this I felt like an ornament. Now I feel like a household utensil...
Nixon is especially fond of the study-commission tactic. He has appointed nearly 50 of them; the annual cost of this presidential predilection is about $10 million. He even named two on oil imports. The first one urged the lifting of restrictions against imports, so he appointed a second that suggested no changes - the result he wanted all along...
David J. Kuter of Dunster House and Fond DuLae, Wisconsin; Jeffrey K. Laurenti of Eliot House and Trenton, New Jersey; Stephen F. Lazor of Eliot House and San Antonio, Texas; Norman L. Letvin of Eliot House and Detroit, Michigan; Jon D. Levenson of Adams House and Wheeling, West Virginia...