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...racing against Rozsy worried Ron, the pale, frail-looking Irishman in Villanova's colors gave no sign last week when he glided easily into the early laps of the National Amateur Athletic Union mile. He picked a place in the clear, just off the pace, and let Chicago's Phil Coleman tow the field along. His slow (2:05.2) half bothered him not a bit. Farther back, Rozsy began to show concern. He wasted energy jockeying for the lead...
...Jacqueline as his mistress for 16 years, tucking her away in an $84,000 Georgian house in St. John's Wood, with her mother as chaperone. When he called (always at noontime), Jacqueline sent her mother to the movies. Three years ago he found himself "getting a bit frail" and tried to break off the liaison. Jacqueline objected; there were telephone calls, and a somewhat ruffled Sir Strati had to confess to his wife to prevent Jacqueline's turning up while a birthday party for his grandchildren was in progress...
Ceylon is swinging sharply left, and frail, fidgety Premier Solomon West Ridgeway Dias Bandaranaike, 58, seems unwilling or unable-or both-to stop it. This week, as Ceylon marks the tenth anniversary of its independence from Britain, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State William Rountree is flying out to check for himself reports that the Indian Ocean island off the southeast coast of India is well on the way to becoming another Syria...
...frail, greying man stood up under the subdued lights of Poland's Sejm last week and said: "People are tired and impatient because they are not sure of the future, and have not been told, even in general terms, what the future is to be." The speaker was Stanislaw Stomma, leader of Poland's twelve-man Catholic parliamentary group, and his words illuminated the strange image of today's Poland: the double image of a worried, unhappy country, yet the only Communist-ruled country where a man can stand up in Parliament and say such things...
...FACE FOR THE WORLD TO SEE, by Alfred Hayes (I 83 pp.; Harper; $3), is the latest book by the author who, a decade ago, wrote The Girl on the Via Flaminia, an effective novel about the blighted romance of a frail-gunning G.I. and a beautiful Italian girl who is bothered about being bought. Now Scriptwriter Hayes (The Rainmaker, Island in the Sun) has restaged his old no-soap opera. This time the shattered city is Hollywood. The Girl on Wilshire Boulevard is a blank-souled beauty with a neurotic yearning for stardom. The sentimental, insensitive...