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...getting a shot at the movies in an Italian opus called Stop the World I Want To Get Off (no kin to the London-Broadway musical). By way of burnishing the image, Donyale told the Italian press that she keeps her figure (31-21-36) by eating only a kilo of meat per day-which comes to 2.2 Ibs., enough to sate a good-sized mastiff...
...Bureaus. The bureaus are manned by local police whose sole job is trading Interpol information with other bureaus and with Saint-Cloud. One payoff for Americans: interdiction of the narcotics pipeline that runs from Turkish farmers to French labs to New York pushers-pushing the price of an illicit kilo of opium from $500 to as much as $400,000 worth of heroin along the way. "Thanks to marvelous harmony between the world's police forces," says Rome-based U.S. Narcotics Agent Michael Picini, "a greater number of seizures is being made overseas today than on the American continent...
...Thanks for Warning." Hilder's only hope of keeping Gidrofon out of the way of the less maneuverable carriers and cruisers is to place his ship between them. When the Conserver gets too close, the Russian quickly hoists three indignant signal flags: Code Kilo X-ray ("You should keep farther away"). On one occasion Hilder replied by flashing a light with a warning that U.S. subs were operating in the area. The Russian replied in clumsy English: "Thanks for warning. I are seeing submarines." Late last month the Gidrofon finally departed for its home port-probably Vladivostok. For days...
...himself has had to double the official minimum wage level. Last week bus fares in Rio rose 40%, and hordes of favela dwellers began getting up hours early to walk to work. Since Castello Branco took over, the price of meat has gone up from 400 cruzeiros per kilo to 1,900, black beans from 180 to 950, rice from 100 to 560. Hardest to take of all, many Brazilians of late can no longer even afford their traditional daily flow of cafèzinhos, or tiny cups of black coffee, which are up from 10 cruzeiros...
...telly at 91-56-89 (centimeters) instead of a somehow more appetizing 36-22-35 (inches). Bert and Alf will have to give up ordering a pint of mild or stout and order 'alf a liter instead, while the missus will have to shop for half a kilo of butter. And who, if he just misses being run down by a lorry, will feel like saying, "A miss is as good as 1.609 kilometers...