Word: gloria
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...when 100 "intellectuals," mostly students and writers, staged a noisy demonstration at the OAS foreign ministers' conference in Rio. Waving banners proclaiming "Down with dictatorship! Up with democracy!", they put on an unpleasant little scene just as Castello Branco drove up to open the conference at the Hotel Gloria. Nine of the leaders were clapped in jail for illegally demonstrating against the government. Last week, the conference over, they were released, and their supporters, who were planning a protest rally, were left with nothing to protest...
Once in May and again in August, the conference had to be postponed because of the flaring civil war in the Dominican Republic. Now at last 800 delegates from 19 nations converged on Rio's ancient Hotel Gloria for the Second Special Inter-American Conference of the Organization of American States. The object was to assess the role of the 17-year-old OAS in a rapidly changing hemisphere. And that was something that badly needed doing. "There are several Pandora's boxes here," said an OAS official, "any one of which contains vast numbers of insects...
...survive he moved to Hollywood and quickly established himself as a character actor in the tough-guy tradition-a kind of punk's Bogart. Today old movie buffs still see him on TV reruns, barking at his moll, Gloria Grahame, Vivian Blaine or Marie McDonald: "I fought I told ya to wait in da car." He ran his luck through nearly 150 movie roles, but by 1941 gangster parts were declared bad for the image of a nation at war. As the clean-cut types moved in, Leonard moved out to the one medium where he could be heard...
Died. Patrick Guinness, 34, banker son of British Financier Loel Guinness and Joan (later Princess Aly Khan) Guinness, half-brother of Aga Khan IV and since 1955 husband of Countess Dolores von Furstenberg, who also happens to be his stepsister (Dolores' mother, Gloria, married Patrick's father in 1951); of injuries sustained when his custom-built Iso-Rivolta plowed into a tree at 110 m.p.h.; near Turtig, Switzerland...
They roared into action when a police radio squawked "QK-7554"-the license number of an oncoming Corvair. "It's a hit!" chortled one cop. "I've got the warrant!" shouted another. The cops flagged down the Corvair, flashed their warrant and arrested the driver-Gloria Placente, 34, a bewildered blonde housewife headed for the beach. Triumphantly, the cops explained their gimmick: a computer miles away had just squealed that Mrs. Placente had neglected to answer a summons after she ran a red light 16 months...