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Strong Like a Tank. Aside from Brazil, which boasts an impressive home-grown Detroit, most Latin American countries must import cars entire or most of the parts. Over the decades, to save their dollar supply, they have clamped such stiff import restrictions and duties on cars that only big companies, big bureaucrats and big spenders can afford new ones. Result: autos, like antiques, go from hand to hand, losing little in value as they grow older...
...last week, King Lear was an eye-rolling, tongue-lolling, hand-scrabbling, dirty old man. Above a billowing green gown that looked like a collapsed circus tent (but still could not hide the hefty Laughton paunch), the famed suet-pudding face was almost obscured by a wild halo of home-grown white whiskers and an unkempt shoulder-length mane of home-grown white hair. For the Bard's buffs, the sight and sound of Lear as a whimpering, elderly brat, a Captain Bligh without backbone, was something of a shock...
Burlesque Boss Harold Minsky has no prejudice against home-grown talent, but at Las Vegas' Dunes Hotel the foreign-born element in his chorus line is the spice of the show ("People enjoy talking to them"). So last month Minsky* took off on a recruiting trip to Europe, returned last week with a report that was part showbusinesslike, part sociological. Said he: "Europe is one big striptease. Hamburg looks like 52nd Street in the wild days; Paris is one strip joint after another...
While its Communist neighbors, Red China and North Viet Nam, hurled threats by radio, tiny Laos last week tried desperately to set its house in order. Tough, grizzled General Ouane Rattinkoun, 34, veteran of jungle battles against the French, Chinese, North Viet Nam Reds, and the home-grown Communists of the Pathet Lao, was ordered to solve by force a problem that had not yielded to nearly two years of diplomacy. His task: to integrate into the 25,000 man Royal Laotian army two Communist battalions...
...broken down physically and financially, and Anna blithely set out to recoup by writing a play. Fashion, her maiden effort, ran a respectable string of performances at the Park in 1845, and launched Author Mowatt on a heady career as an actress. It also gave the U.S. its first home-grown play of any success...