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Divorce Revealed. Rod Steiger, 34, method actor, TV's original Marty, the cinema's current Al Capone and the malevolent bandit in Broadway's Rashomon; by Sally Gracie, 30, actress; after six years of marriage (mostly in separation), no children; in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, in January...
...back to the waiting submarine), Lemnitzer had some close calls: he had to hide in a wine cellar when nosy Vichy French gendarmes came to investigate curious circumstances at the clandestine meeting place; later, en route to Torch headquarters in Gibraltar, his B-17 was attacked by three Nazi JU-88s, which wounded the copilot...
Dreaming of empire, France's Napoleon III sent mild-mannered, well-intentioned Austrian Archduke Maximilian to rule Mexico while the U.S. was busy fighting its Civil War. But Napoleon had to abandon "Emperor" Maximilian to the advancing forces of Mexican Patriot Benito Juárez, and the pathetic Austrian went gallantly before a firing squad in Mexican shirt and cowboy trousers, dividing his few remaining gold coins among his executioners...
Strongman Porfirio Diáz took over after Juárez in 1876, ruled with an iron hand, justifying his protective dictatorship by sighing, "Poor Mexico, so far from God and so close to the U.S." He was overthrown by the 1910 Revolution, which became the almost mystical source of reform-land, church, social, economic-and is still the major influence in Mexico's national life today. It was led by Francisco Madero, a 5-ft. 2-in. vegetarian, teetotaler and spiritualist with brown beard, piping voice and a nervous tic. Madero was supported by the backwoods guerrillas Francisco...
Divorced. By Lily Pons, 54, petite (5 ft. ½ in.), French-born coloratura soprano best known a half-generation ago: Andre Kostelanetz, 56, Leningrad-born orchestra conductor and arranger of tried and true sounds; after 20 years of marriage, no children; in Juárez, Mexico...