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...foot and can't walk. It has a head and can't talk. What is it? 2) What lives in winter, dies in summer, and grows with its root upward? These are only a small sampling of Monika Beisner's Book of Riddles (Farrar, Straus & Gir-oux;$11.95). The mystification is alleviated by Beisner's teasing illustrations, which scatter clues for those who know how to observe. The answers, incidentally, are: 1) a bed, 2) an icicle. And those are the easy ones...
...Crowning. At the Mass, besides the Franco family, were Cabinet Ministers, the 17-member Council of the Realm and a few old cronies from Civil War days. One of them was former Labor Minister José Antonio GirÓn de Velasco, 64, defiantly dressed not in mourning clothes but in the uniform of Franco's Falange movement: blue shirt and black tie. A leading spokesman for the "bunker" of hard-liners who oppose political liberalization, Giron a few days earlier had warned: "We say no, a rigorous and sharp no, to any change in the system." The celebrant...
...story of Fanny Brice is the fairytale dream of an unprepossessing kid who rose from the ghetto to the Follies on a powerful amalgam of brass and tal ent. Barbra's marked resemblance to Fanny is more than nasal. She is the flip side of Cinderella-the homely gir who made it. Conceivably, it could happen to every unendowed citizen in America. For her fans, that is enough...
From then on, it was one gesture after another. Ben Bella gushed praise for the "extraordinary advances and progress of this revolution despite the maneuvers of enemy forces." Every Algerian, he said, "knows, follows and admires" the Cuban revolution; Algerians celebrate "as a national event, the victory of Playa Girón."* As a new nation, he said, Algeria has struck only one medal of honor, and this will be given to Castro...
Info the D.A.R. As call gir s in big cities, they commanded a minimum of $20 (and up to $100) per "sexual contact," averaged $20.000 a year each. But none had turned prostitute mainly for money; some of them came from well-heeled homes. When they emphasized the importance of money. Analyst Greenwald found, they were rationalizing their step...