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...Born. To Maria Pia, 28, Princess Royal of the House of Savoy, daughter of ex-King Umberto of Italy, and Prince Alexander of Yugoslavia, 38: a twin boy and girl, their third son and first daughter, second set of twins; in Paris...
...husband and wife, Pierre and Maria, are driving through Spain to Madrid, accompanied by a young girl, Claire, who is not yet Pierre's mistress but who plainly will be as soon as they can slip off to a hotel room. A violent thunderstorm forces them to stop for the night in a small town 150 miles short of Madrid. There they learn that a double murder has been committed; a young husband has found his wife in bed with another man and in accordance with the local code of honor has shot them both...
...that evening Maria, standing on a hotel balcony, sees her husband kiss Claire on another balcony and almost simultaneously spots the murderer crouched on a nearby roof. She gets the car out and smuggles the murderer out of town past the patrolling police. A few hours later, she takes Pierre and Claire back to the field where she had left him only to find he has committed suicide. Saddened that they were unable to save him, they drive on to Madrid...
...Arosemena's chances of wearing it long seemed woefully slim. Of his country's last 20 Presidents, only three served full terms. He himself was the playboy offspring of a rich Guayaquil banker, and rode into the vice-presidency in 1960 on the coattails of President Jose Maria Velasco Ibarra. He got the top job after Velasco Ibarra proved powerless to curb runaway inflation and left-led strikes, and was turned out by the military. Once in office, Arosemena baffled his countrymen by his politics, and his personal habits became the talk of the nation. Yet after...
Gian Carlo Menotti owes a large part of his fame to television and the fact that Amahl has replaced Tiny Tim as America's favorite Christmas cripple. Though Menotti's Amahl and the Night Visitors (1951), like Maria Golovin (1958), was written primarily for television, the composer carefully followed all the conventions of stage presentation, and both works have been sung in theaters. But Menotti has finally gone all the way. His latest opera, Labyrinth, commissioned like the others by NBC and shown for the first time this week, would be impossible on the stage...