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Planning their itineraries for world tours, U.S. officials are fond of omitting Indonesia, the touchy, swarming island nation whose government professes neutralism while practicing anti-Americanism...
...secretary of state, he asked the Wyoming legislature to cut his department's budget; it did, but even so, Gage did not spend all the money. Succeeding to the governorship last year to fill out an unexpired term, Gage confounded Wyoming boosters who were fond of claiming dramatic population growth for the state. Said he: "This is just not true, since among the continental states we happen to rank next to the bottom. In my thoughts alone, this is somewhat of a blessing...
CARLOS RAFAEL RODRÍGUEZ, 48, editor of the Communist newspaper Hoy, professor of economics at Havana University and now: president of the vitally important Agrarian Reform Institute. Fond of good eating, good tailoring and fancy cuff links, Rodríguez joined the Communist Party at Havana University in the 1930s. A Marxist theoretician, he served as a government minister without portfolio in 1942-43 during Dictator Batista's long honeymoon with the Reds. At the recent Punta del Este foreign ministers' conference, the Cuban voice was that of puppet President Osvaldo Dorticós. but the words...
...form of undergraduate education, not idle to inquire whether this education actually has enduring . Today there is no evidence that Harvard brings about changes that would not occur elsewhere; there is no that House dining halls, casual contacts with tutors, and the tutorial system leave any enduring mark save fond memory...
Italian Cinemelon Sophia Loren, 27, had her day in court on two continents. In Rome, her fond discoverer, Producer Carlo Ponti, was racing to annul their marriage before they could be booked for bigamy (Italy does not recognize Ponti's divorce from his first wife). In New York Supreme Court, where Sophia was suing Bronston Productions, Inc. because she was billed below Charlton Heston on a Broadway sign ballyhooing El Cid. Justice Samuel Hofstadter chucked out her requested injunction. Said he: "Such vanity doubtless is due to the adulation which the public showers on the denizens of the entertainment...