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...Puerto Rico no one can really succeed Luis Muñoz Marin-and no one knows it better than Sánchez Vilella. He is extremely shy, has none of the klieg-light blaze and charm of Muñoz. Last week, while Muñoz fought through his farewell speech, Sánchez Vilella stood nervously mopping his face with a handkerchief balled tightly around an ice cube. "I was paralyzed," he said later. "It was awful. There was one moment when the crowd was almost hysterical, shouting 'No, no,' and I was snouting it too. Inside...
...While klieg lights flared over a shabby curb in Santa Monica, a few famous ghosts may have drawn up in invisible Duesenbergs, but the people who arrived in visible Cadillacs were, for the most part, fat anonymous cats. Only the sex specialists, like Carroll Baker and Eva Six, tried to take advantage of the occasion-Eva in a dress that would qualify for the gatefold of Man-boy Magazine and Carroll in a feathered boa. "Hey, Carroll, take it off!" screamed the fans...
...covering a society ball? "Oh, I think it is a wonderful idea," gushed Rose Kennedy. And the 1,200 guests ($150 a head) at Manhattan's April in Paris Ball politely went along with it. But it wasn't wonderful at all. It was a disaster. Glaring klieg lights wrecked the party mood. Camera cables crisscrossed the floor, making dancing treacherous. And faulty equipment on the six cameras made a hack of the schedule. The soup and salad courses never got out of the kitchen, and the entertainment by such as Jacqueline François and Frank Sinatra...
...Penkovsky, 44, was a much-decorated Russian war hero who recently had held the delicate job of arranging East-West scientific exchanges for a Soviet state committee. But last week the incongruous pair went on trial for espionage before a military panel of three Soviet Supreme Court generals. While klieg lights glared and some 300 perspiring spectators sat on the edge of their seats for five days, the most bizarre spy circus in postwar Soviet history unfolded before their eyes. If the two men's confessions could be believed, the West had pulled off a spectacular coup...
...again, moving forward economically and back into the councils of the world." Once he remarked: "It has been said that I am not able to move people to tears or excitement. Quite probably that is true." Unwilling to make hard, unqualified statements, ill at ease in the glare of klieg lights when he mounted a platform, quick and most effective in small groups, Pearson established little rapport with the voters, often projected a sense of thoughtful indecision. "The thing that terrifies me is demagoguery," he said. "The hoopla, the circus part of it, all that sort of thing still makes...