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...trial balloon for Peace Corps Director Sargent Shriver. He had asked Shriver, off on a Peace Corps inspection trip, to deliver personal, confidential messages from the President to Pope Paul VI in the Holy Land, to Jordan's King Hussein, and to Israel's Premier Levi Eshkol...
...Agent Bond, who makes steely love, is a wine snob, and likes to rub people out without spilling blood on the carpet. But Bond is a phony and Connery is not. Bond flashes his acquired taste for champagne, but Connery just orders beer. Connery goes around Hollywood in new Levi's and sweatshirts. Just before the recent arrival of his wife (Actress Diane Cilento) and their two children, he moved into a $1,000-a-month Bel Air house carrying nothing but a small suitcase and a carton of groceries...
...Levi Laub and Phillip A. Luce, were allowed to leave the New York City area last week for the first time since their indictment on Sept. 27, when they and 57 others returned from a two-month stay in Cuba...
Actually it was a fast not a feast that brought Gassman, Novelist Carlo (Christ Stopped at Eboli) Levi, poets, folk singers and droves of journalists to the bleak little mountain town south of Palermo. Ever since 1929, when a visiting Fascist minister promised that the government would build a dam near by, Roccamenensi have eagerly looked forward to the day when they would be able to irrigate their parched fields and perhaps even stanch the northward exodus of hungry peasants that has emptied whole villages in the area. In 1952 the government finally earmarked $12.8 million for the project...
Armed with 20,000 books, the volunteers hold classes for four hours a day at seven makeshift centers around the county. In Farmville, classes fill the pews of Beulah A.M.E. Church and the First Baptist Church. In Levi, the teachers swept the broken glass out of an abandoned schoolhouse and set up shop. In Hampden-Sydney, they teach in a fly-swept Sunday school with chickens scratching in the dust outside. And the kids, some of them walking three miles, have flocked to school in such numbers that teachers had to cut off enrollment...