Word: maria
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Death and taxes are unavoidable. For most people, marriage and taxes seem equally inescapable. Not for tempestuous Soprano Maria Callas. By signing her name to a piece of paper in the American embassy in Paris and renouncing her U.S. citizenship, she shed not only her husband but a hefty potential tax obligation as well...
Born. To Robert Goulet, 32, crooner and TV star, currently doing the spy bit on ABC's Blue Light, and Carol Lawrence, 33, Broadway's darkly beautiful Maria in the Broadway version of West Side Story: their second child, second son; in Los Angeles...
...lectures on economics, in which he argued that the way to get the peso on a par with the dollar was to "lock up all Colombians with money outside the country and not let them go until they bring back the $3 billion they have hidden abroad." His daughter Maria Eugenia Rojas de Moreno Diaz, 30, who ran for the Senate, turned up in the smaller towns to buy rice, yucca and corn at the marketplace. Then she set up a booth to resell them at a half or a third of the price, telling everyone, "This is how much...
...Merrick's critics-a cast of thousands-ad mit that what can be done by industrial methods, he does well: the package is attractive, the contents safe-but unoriginal. "The man's not creative," a director says. "He's a packager and an importer." .All but four (The Matchmaker, Maria Golovin, Milk Train, I Was Dancing) of the 19 Merrick shows that originated in America were musicals or comedies with more Merrick than merit in them; the others were imported from England or France...
Next victim: Anna Maria Alberghet-ti, who said she was too sick to appear in Carnival and dragged herself off to the hospital. Merrick sent the lady a bouquet of plastic roses and demanded a lie-detector test. At various times since then, he has flown into snits over Richard Rodgers, Arthur Miller, Barry Goldwater, Mayor Lindsay, the New York Telephone Co., the New York City Transit Authority, and the Republican Party (when accused of calling Henry Cabot Lodge "a broken-down Republican," he denied indignantly that he had used "a phrase so redundant"). He has even taken out after...