Word: maria
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...odds against giving birth to twins are 80 to 1, against triplets 6,400 to 1, against quadruplets 512,000 to 1 and against quintuplets 40,960,000 to 1. Last week in Mexico City, Mrs. Maria Teresa López de Sepulveda, 21, wife of a social security clerk and mother of a two-year-old son, produced the 20,971,520,000,000-to-l chance: octuplets, four boys and four girls. The babies, weighing about 19½ oz. each, were two months premature, and all died within hours. It was only the third time in this century...
...hair mussed? I like the way the girls wear their hair, and hope that they continue wearing it off-stage so, but nuts just aren't that tidy. Something should also be done about Sherry Turkle's legs, which are quite pleasantly pink. Miss Turkle plays the maid Maria, in this production a septuagenarian cackler. Of course I don't begrudge her her pink legs, but it just isn't fitting...
...MARIA ELENA DUR Manhattan
Unexpected Opposition. Since both the Vatican and Franco favored the bill, it was expected to sail through. Its author, Foreign Minister Fernando Maria Castiella y Maiz, 59, introduced it to his fellow ministers at a regular Cabinet meeting presided over by Franco. Trouble began almost immediately. To show their disinterest, half a dozen Cabinet members jumped to their feet and walked out of the room. Castiella, who has championed the bill for ten years, nevertheless pressed on with his familiar argument: granting religious freedom was not only the right thing to do morally but also the right thing for Spain...
...only prose in the issue is Newton Kershaw's "A Matter of Love," and I found it hard to decide what kind of game he's playing here. The plot is saccharine even by the standards of the traditional Harvard sex story, so Stephen and Maria, "two very unordinary students," share a special relationship which features endless avowals of their love (the word is used a record thrity-three times) and a never-to-be-equalled scene in which they sit, naked, in Stephen's living room, listening to Beethoven. Not surprisingly, they retire to his bedroom as "Beethoven erupted...