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Curious Islanders. It was a swinging caper. Led by Maria Cristina Verrier, 27, a ye-ye blonde playwright who is a kind of cross between the Girl from U.N.C.L.E. and the Dodge Rebellion, 18 members of the Movimiento Nueva Argentina climbed aboard a night flight from Buenos Aires to Rio Gallegos in Argentina's far south. Shortly before the DC-4 was due to land, they pulled pistols and burp guns out of their suit cases, ordered the pilot to change course for Port Stanley, capital of the Falk land Islands. If all went according to plan, they figured...
...natives were damnably hospitable. They took the plane's 25 nonconspiratorial passengers into their homes, were hurt when Maria Cristina and her troupe refused their hospitality and elected to stay in the plane. The last straw came when the island's tiny police force politely informed the conspirators that it was against the law to arrest the police chief or capture public buildings. Dismayed, the invaders finally gave themselves up and accepted beds in Port Stanley homes...
...Married. Maria Schell, 40, Viennese movie star; and Veit Relin (real name: Franz Pichler), 40, avant-garde theater director and father of her three-monthold daughter; both for the second time; in Reitmehring, Germany...
...ugly kid" until he joined the Seabees and a 200-lb. counterweight fell on him, crushing his face, after which Navy plastic surgeons made him handsome enough to become an actor; of drowning while filming a jungle movie; on the Huallaga River in the remote Tingo Maria area of Peru...
...aging Heldentenor Lauritz Melchior, whose variations on the score had been the bane of Met conductors for years. Amid the howls of "Adolf Bing!" and "Prussian dictator" Bing remained serene. "I will run this house," he said, "on the principle of quality and quality alone." In 1958, when Maria Callas refused to sing the roles in the sequence that Bing had assigned her, he summarily dismissed her, touching off an international cause celebre. (Bing later hung a photograph in his office showing himself and the celebrated diva kissing, with the caption: "Darling!" "You're fired...