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...Hell." All five major parties are involved in Krishna Menon's re-election fight in North Bombay. In an unlikely coalition, the Swatantra, Jana Sangh, and Praja Socialist parties are backing Jiwatram Bhagwandas Kripalani, 74, a lean, acerbic former Congress Party president who fell out with Nehru, formed the Praja Socialists in 1951, is now an independent. To combat this alliance, Bombay's Communist Party has put its organization at the disposal of Congress Candidate Menon: Menon's defeat-or even a narrow victory-would be the most dramatic repudiation of Nehru's aggressive socialism...
...some weeks ago launched a search to put "new blood into top management." Last week Pace resigned. Tapped to replace him as chief executive at a salary of $125,000 was Roger Lewis. 50, now a $71,600-a-year executive vice president of Pan American World Airways. A lean, energetic executive, Lewis went from vice-presidencies of Canadair Ltd. (now a GD division) and later Curtiss-Wright Corp. to the Pentagon (as Assistant Secretary of the Air Force, 1953-55) and then...
...reader of Vogue or Harper's Bazaar can testify, Mrs. Guinness should be better known. She has a lean figure, the profile of a latter-day Nefertiti, and hair like black velvet. At 47, Gloria Rubio von Furstenberg Guinness is a classic example of a woman who knows what money can do-and does it with grace. Her husband is related to the famed Guinness brewing clan and is a multimillionaire (banking, airplanes, etc.). They scorn café society's more redolent haunts; they are just rich people who maintain a bejeweled private life, do nothing deliberately...
Nearly every visitor to France has seen them: lean men in red berets, with open collars and rolled-up sleeves, who walk with the self-conscious swagger of a military elite. They are French paratroopers, who both defend De Gaulle's Fifth Re public and threaten to destroy it. This engrossing novel, by ex-Paratrooper Jean Lartèguy, 40, which has sold more than 400,000 copies in France, examines at length the fury and frustration animating this brotherhood...
...National Finals Rodeo in Dallas, the cowpoke stared coldly at a mottled grey bronc, puffed an inch-long butt, and spat contemptuously into the dirt. "Keep your eyes open," warned a bystander. "That Blue Boy's a rank old s.o.b." Nodding brusquely, Kenny Mc Lean hiked up his scuffed leather chaps, swung over the rail, settled gingerly into the saddle, and in the awkward tradition of rodeo riding, he dug his spurs hard into Blue Boy's neck...